Quotes About Freedom

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.