Womans Rights Quotes

“Female. That label has never done anything for me except dictate what I can or cannot do. No going anywhere without permission. No showing too much skin. No speaking too loudly or unkindly, or at all, if the men are talking. No living my life without being constantly aware of how pleasing I am to the eye. No future except pushing out son after son for a husband”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“Oh, do shut up, Martha. Wearing sensible shoes doesn’t make a woman a feminist or a lesbian any more than wearing that hideous yellow dress makes you a goddamn banana,” Violet snarked, shaking her head. “I swear with women like you, I don’t know why my mother fought so hard to win the right to vote.”
― Onley James, Intoxicating

“The Right of Every Woman is to be Loved
I am all Woman”
― Neil Mach, Postcard Angel: An Innocent Girl Becomes The World's First Pin-up

“Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

“The disturbance of public peace is not a result of what Melissa did; it's because we have allowed peace to slip through our fingers.”
― A. O. Nathaniels, Your Womanhood Taunted Lords