Quotes About Advocacy

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

I believe that women will lead the democracy movement.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.