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Quotes About Advocacy

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.
~ Lyn St. James
At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.
~ Ellen Malcolm
I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.
~ Amber Riley
I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.
~ Anne Waldman
Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
~ Salma Hayek
Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
~ Joseph McCabe
I would love for people to know that the label feminist is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.
~ Kristen Schaal
I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.
~ Lucy Lawless
There need to be more women supporting women. Not just in fashion, in general.
~ Victoria Beckham
There is no issue that is not a women's issue.
~ Charlotte Bunch
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
~ Dorothy Allison
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
~ Susan B. Anthony
It's important to try to get people to think about women's wellness.
~ Billie Jean King
Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.
~ Carlos Andres Gomez
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.
~ Bethany Cosentino
I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
~ Caprice Bourret
President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.
~ Cecile Richards
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
~ Lucy Stone
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, 'power to the women.
~ Desmond Tutu
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
~ Maya Angelou