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Quotes About Woman's rights

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
~ Barbara Boxer
I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Spiritualism provided an important audience for radical reform and a source of affirmation for embattled radical leaders. In their zeal for "self-ownership," Spiritualists advocated a broad woman's rights program, combating every disability imposed by church, state, or social convention.
~ Ann Braude
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
~ Barbara Boxer
Escribía y era una intelectual de marca mayor, le interesaban mucho los derechos de la mujer pero le desagradaban los niños, los recién nacidos en particular, aunque puede que fuera porque ella no los había tenido ni podía tenerlos ya, puesto que Simeon, su marido, la había dejado.
~ Barbara Comyns
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It? You mean preserving a zygote or blastula or whatever? That's their moral obligation? Not their obligation to a living, breathing woman who just got raped?
~ Susan Wiggs
Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Protecting Medicare and Social Security, health care, workers' rights, and a woman's right to choose remain top priorities for me.
~ Mazie Hirono
Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.
~ Joseph Cook
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
~ Olympe de Gouges
DT—three hours later] "The doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb."—donaldjtrump.com, March 30, 2016
~ James Patterson
I've never made any statements about the abortion issue at any time in my life - never retreating one inch - from a woman's rights to legal abortion. Ever.
~ Elizabeth May
The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.
~ R. Heber Newton
Whether or not you believed a fetus was a human being, there was no question in anyone's mind that a grown woman was one. Even if you placed moral value on that fetus, you couldn't give it rights unless they were stripped away from the woman carrying it. Perhaps the question wasn't When does a fetus become a person? but When does a woman stop being one?
~ Jodi Picoult