"We
ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that
belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters
forever."
-- Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876
 | My
idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman
has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
-- Ani
DiFranco *
I
have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement,
and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
-- Ani
DiFranco
|
*
The
young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation,
should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great
price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of
their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The
debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.
-- Abigail
Duniway |  |
When women's true
history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will
astound the world.
-- Abigail
Duniway
*
We
need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions
that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich What
we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change
institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches
a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend
but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds
herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the
institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert
them.
-- Barbara
Ehrenreich |  |
 | *
"...gender
relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society
orients to domination or partnership in all its relations."
-- Riane
Eisler "For
most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence
against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to
prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or
tacitly approved it. …..The reason violence against women and children is finally
out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention."
--
Riane Eisler
|
"We've
chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around."
-- Geraldine
Ferraro (The first woman to be nominated as Vice President of the United States)
*
"Adult
women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender
norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding
it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one
way."
-- Jane
Fonda *
"If
you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world,
you can begin to change the prospects for the future."
--
Jane Fonda |  |
But the whole point
of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
-- Jane Fonda
The
extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
-- Charles Fourier
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration
of themselves.
-- Betty
Friedan
*
The
only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person,
is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
-- Betty
Friedan | 
|
A girl should not
expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to
prejudice and discrimination.
-- Betty
Friedan
 |
*
"If
you have knowledge, let others light their candles
in it."
-- Margaret
Fuller
|
| ... being a feminist
means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.
-- Janeane
Garofalo |
|
| *
"Women's
rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the
equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy."
--
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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.
-- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg *
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility
of bringing up the next generation.
-- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg |  |
My mother told me
to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It is not women's
liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
-- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
“The
state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.”
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The emphasis
must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive
control.
-- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
I
do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because
it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
*
"Male
and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted
to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and
without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents."
--
Olympe de Gouges |
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