Womens Rights Quotes

“Thanks, but no. I like my TV and phone. And I like being considered a person, not livestock for breeding.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Women Run Better (The Sonnet)

Men only inherit the world,
Women give birth to the world.
If women can birth the world,
women can run the world
(far better than men).

History reveals, war is a masculine merchandise,
Whereas preserving life is an act of the feminine.
Masculinity bears inclination for competitiveness,
Femininity is synonymous with synergy and cohesion.

That's why female leaders
can step down more gracefully,
making way for new minds at the helm,
Whereas their male counterparts would
rather take their position to the grave.

Femininity is not a reproductive quality,
Femininity is the source of all rejuvenation.
No matter what gender or orientation you are,
Nourish your femininity, and there'll be ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Men only inherit the world,
Women give birth to the world.
If women can birth the world,
Women can run the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“If women can birth the world, women can run the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights', they assume something similar is being demanded - that trans people be enabled to live without discrimination, harassment and violence, and to express themselves as they wish. Such goals are worthy ones, but they are not what mainstream transactivism is about. What campaigners mean by 'trans rights' is gender self-identification: that trans people be treated in every circumstance as members of the sex they identify with, rather than the sex they actually are.

This is not a human right at all. It is a demand that everyone else lose their rights to single-sex spaces, services and activities. And in its requirement that everyone else accept trans peoples' subjective beliefs as objective reality, it is akin to a new state religion, complete with blasphemy laws. All this explains the speed. When you want new laws, you can focus on lobbying, rather than the painstaking business of building broad-based coalitions. And when those laws will take away other people's rights, it is not only unnecessary to build public awareness - it is imperative to keep the public in the dark.”
― Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

“The greatest gift I ever received. And the greatest gift I ever gave to this world was you. I love you my daughter.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“She hated prisons, whether it was in the dungeon or in the open air.”
― SIYA SEJAL, THORNS OF ESLANDA

“A Sweet Woman from a War-Torn Country"

In her exile, they often describe her

as that “sweet woman from a war-torn country” …

They don’t know that she loved smelling roses …

That she enjoyed picking spring wildflowers

and bringing them home after long walks…

They don’t know about that first kiss her first lover stole from her

during a power outage at church on that Easter evening

Before the generators were turned on…

They don’t know anything about the long hours

she spent contemplating life

under the ancient walnut tree in her village,

while waiting for her grandfather to call her

to eat her favorite freshly baked pita bread with ghee and honey…

They don’t know anything about her grandmother’s delicious mixed grains

that she prepared every year before Easter fasting began…

In exile, they try to be nice to her…

They keep repeating that she is now in a “safe haven”…

They attribute her silence is either to her poor language skills,

or perhaps because she agrees with them…

They don’t know that the shocks of life have silenced her forever…

All she enjoys doing now is pressing her ears

against the cold window glass in her apartment

listening to the wailing wind outside …

They repeatedly remind her that she is now in a place

where all values, beliefs, religions, and ethnicities are honored,

but life has taught her that all of that is too late…

She no longer needs any of that…

All she needs, occasionally,

is a sincere hand to be placed on her shoulder

or around her neck

To remind her that nothing lasts

That this too shall pass…


[Published on April 7, 2023 on CounterPunch.org]”
― Louis Yako

“It's undeniable that women in power are held to standards that would never apply to men. Has anyone told Jeff Bezos that he should smile more?”
― Kendra Scott, Born to Shine: Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love

“My view is that, using Woodhouse’s own words, the male-to-female transsexual is a “fantastic woman, ” the incarnation of a male fantasy of feeling like a woman trapped in a man’s body, the fantasy rendered flesh by a further male medical fantasy of surgically fashioning a male body into a female one. These fantasies are based in the male imagination, not in any female reality. It is this female reality that the surgically-constructed woman does not possess, not because women innately carry some essence of femininity but because these men have not had to live in a female body with all the history that entails. It is that history that is basic to female reality, and yes, history is based to a certain extent on female biology.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“The female-to-constructed-male transsexual is the token that saves face for the male “transsexual empire. ” She is the buffer zone who can be used to promote the universalist argument that transsexualism is a supposed “human” problem, not uniquely restricted to men. She is the living “proof” that some women supposedly want the same thing. However, “proof” wanes when it is observed that women were not the original nor are they the present agents of the process. Nor are the stereotypes of masculinity that a female-to-constructed-male transsexual incarnates products of a female-directed culture. Rather women have been assimilated into the transsexual world, as women are assimilated into other male-defined worlds, institutions, and roles, that is, on men’s terms, and thus as tokens.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“Male-to-constructed-female transsexualism is only one more relatively recent variation on this theme where the female genitalia are completely separated from the biological woman and, through surgery, come to be dominated by incorporation into the biological man. Transsexualism is thus the ultimate, and we might even say the logical, conclusion of male possession of women in a patriarchal society. Literally, men here possess women.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it makes you a rake, but it makes me a whore.' He flinches, and she says it again, louder. 'Yes, a whore! And what of my principles? What of the way I'm looked at, sneered at even by your charwoman? Your mere mistress - and if you discarded me I'd have nothing.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

“If women can birth the world,
Women can run the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Women are the unsung heroes who make the world a better place.”
― Baptiste Tricoire

“Women in power is power used best,
Men in power means power makes a mess.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Women in Power (The Sonnet)

Women in power is power used best,
Men in power means power makes a mess.

For the world to become gender-neutral,
First it's gotta become matriarchal.
Thereafter gender will bear no significance,
Only the capable shall dawn the pedestal.

In patriarchy war and tyranny are the norm,
While peace and equality are exception.
In matriarchy synergy is the norm,
While shallowness is the exception.

Before the world is equalized,
first it's gotta be dehypnotized.
And no world is ever dehypnotized till
the paradigm is mended by the marginalized .”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“When he comes crawling to you in tears the next morning, you don't actually believe him anymore. But now this is just what you do. The same way you fix the hole in your dress with a safety pin or tape up the crack in a window. That's the part I was stuck in, the part where you accept the apology because it's easier than addressing the root of the problem.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“The only way to live an aligned life is to drop the good girl act and trade her in for something more authentic, something more unruly.”
― Renee Bauer

“It's hard to be interested in what men have to say when all you think we should do is bear sons."
The advisors gasped collectively.
But the Emperor smiled. "Then tell us, Fa Mulan. What should a woman do?"
Mulan lifted her chin. "A woman is equal to a man," she said firmly. "She should have the chance to be educated as a man, and she should be able to speak her mind and be heard and listened to."
One of the advisors snorted. "Next you'll be saying that women should be able to own land and take the civil exams!"
The men laughed.
"Well, why not?" Mulan challenged. "Or are you afraid that we'll surpass you all?"
Their laughter died.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Twisted Tale Anthology

“Until recently, career women were frowned upon, and those who stayed at home were respected - now the situation has gotten reversed - not better mark you, just reversed. Now career women are respected, and those who give up their career, or step down to a less demanding position, in order to raise a family, are object of ridicule. This is not progress, it’s recurring regress. Substituting one authoritarian cruelty with another is not progress, it’s recurring regress - which is also the case when you ban hijab in the name of freedom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“The creation of the category of 'transgender' children is the sine qua non of their argument that they suffer from a biological condition of 'gender identity'. It serves to prove that they are not sexually motivated because children are seen as innocent. Children's lifetime health and functioning has been sacrificed to support a male adult paraphilia.”
― Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

“Men who practice transvestism as an expression of the male sex right have been turned into a rights-bearing category, an oppressed minority whose excitements have precedents over the dignity, safety, and civil and political freedoms of women, and even the existence of women as a social and biological category. This achievement has depending upon obscuring their sexual motivations in favour of the idea that they are somehow essentially female in their heads.”
― Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

“There can be no liberation of women without a complete transformation of the way that male sexuality is constructed. Whilst the eroticising of women's subordination remains the basis of what is seen as sex, women cannot escape coercion in the bedroom, sexual harassment on the streets and at work, and the requirement to service men's excitements in the way they dress and behave. Women's appearance, behaviour, body language, opportunities are shaped by this 'duty'.”
― Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

“The most obvious proof that male sexuality is constructed to be abusive is the fact that men do not rape women in the breakfast cereal isle of the local supermarket. They are not subject to forces beyond their control. Men's sex right is socially constructed and expressed only where there is likely to be no immediate sanction. Men's sexual violence towards women is a product of their minds and not their biology.”
― Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

“Simone de Beauvoir gave us the insight that woman has been fabricated by man as “the other, ” the relative being—relative to himself as the norm. So it should not be surprising that men, who have literally and figuratively, constructed women for centuries, are now “perfecting” the man-made women out of their own flesh.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“However, the other side of fetishization is worship or reverence for the fetish object. In primitive religions, fetish objects were worshiped because people were afraid of the power they were seen to contain. Therefore primitive peoples sought to control the power of the fetish by worshiping it and in so doing they confined it to its “rightful place. ” There was a recognition of a power that people felt they lacked and a constant quest in ceremonies and cults to invest themselves with the power of the fetish object. Thus to worship was also to control. In this way, objectification and worship are two sides of the same coin.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“[...] The deceptiveness of men without “members, ” that is, castrated men or eunuchs, has historical precedent. There is a long tradition of eunuchs who were used by rulers, heads of state, and magistrates as keepers o f women. Eunuchs were supervisors of the harem in Islam and wardens of women’s apartments in many royal households. In fact, the word eunuch, from the Greek eunouchos, literally means “keeper of the bed. ” Eunuchs were men that other more powerful men used to keep their women in place. By fulfilling this role, eunuchs also succeeded in winning the confidence of the ruler and securing important and influential positions.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“We might say that the body is part of the creative ground of existence, but we are not bound by that structure in the full creative sense. Our spirit is bound to our bodies, as its creative ground, but surpasses it through freedom and choice. The body is present in all our choices, but as total persons, we have the freedom to be other than what culturally accompanies a male or female body.”
― Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

“Until recently, career women were frowned upon, and those who stayed at home were respected - now the situation has gotten reversed - not better mark you, just reversed. Now career women are respected, and those who give up their career, or step down to a less demanding position, in order to raise a family, are object of ridicule. This is not progress, it’s recurring regress. Substituting one authoritarian cruelty with another is not progress, it’s recurring regress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn