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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing
the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all -- every gender, race,
creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
-- Bella
Abzug The
test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your
chromosomes.
-- --
Bella Abzug
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If particular care and attention
is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not
hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
-- Abigail Adams
“If we mean to
have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
--
Abigail Adams |
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The
connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development
and peace is increasingly apparent.
--
Mahnaz Afkhami Women's
empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
--
Mahnaz Afkhami | 
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though they make up half the population, women and girls have endured discrimination
in most societies for thousands of years. In the past, women were treated as property
of their husbands or fathers - they couldn't own land, they couldn't vote or go
to school, and were subject to beatings and abuse and could do nothing about it.
Over the last hundred years, much progress has been made to gain equal rights
for women around the world, but many still live without the rights to which all
people are entitled.
-- Robert
Alan |  |
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"You ask whether
a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this,
there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work
under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be
paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice."
-- John
Peter Altgeld |
Equal
pay for women is a matter of simple justice.
-- Mary
Anderson |
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"…gender equality is critical
to the development and peace of every nation."
-- Kofi
Annan "…there
is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women."
-- Kofi Annan "women
themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom
from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making
that a reality.
-- Kofi
Annan When
women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a
better start in life.
-- Kofi
Annan |
"The
day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside,
but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect
comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest
development of the race."
-- Susan
B. Anthony *
"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or
social standards never can bring about reform. | 
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"Cautious, careful
people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never
can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything
or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and
out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the
consequences."
-- Susan
B. Anthony
"Independence
is happiness." -- Susan
B. Anthony
"There
never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect
lawmakers." -- Susan B.
Anthony
"I
declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must
be taught to protect herself and there I take my stand." -- Susan
B. Anthony
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and
give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
--Joan Baez
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"The
dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of
the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind."
-- Mary Ritter
Beard (1876-1958),
"For
what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common
womanhood, the property of all women."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell (The first
woman in the U.S. to become a physician)
"If
society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell
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It will not do to say that
it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then
it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.
-- Amelia
Bloomer |
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“We are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact,
according to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women
and children in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there
are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history.”
-- Charlotte Bunch “Feminism
is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking
at the world–a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women’s
energy.”
--
Charlotte Bunch |
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Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence
in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
-- Charlotte Bunch
“We
have to start looking at the world through women’s eyes’ how are human rights,
peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It’s
also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse
women, because there is not single women’s view, any more than there is a single
men’s view.”
--
Charlotte Bunch
Feminism
is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
--
Charlotte Bunch
“The
state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk
on a larger scale.”
-- Charlotte Bunch
Women have
a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn
from that, listen to the movement and respond.”
--
Charlotte Bunch
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Everybody
counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every
responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or
creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt |
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Remember our heritage
is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women
have been strong.
-- Judy Chicago
"Educate
a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family."
-- A.Cripps
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