Women's Rights Quotes

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.