Women'S Rights Quotes

“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”

“The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.”

“Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876 have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”

“Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?”

“The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.”

“No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband, must be such as the man himself cannot possibly comprehend.”

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."

Emmeline Pankhurst

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”

B. R. Ambedkar

“There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved.”

“Ain't I a woman?”

Sojourner Truth

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.”

Mary Wollstonecraft

“Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.”

Abigail Adams

“Women's rights are human rights.”

Hillary Clinton

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Brontë

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

Audre Lorde

“Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.”