Womens Rights Quotes

“You don't think girls are afraid?"
"Girls... know how to sacrifice.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“You could take a robin, put it in a cage, and carry it with you around the world- but if you never opened the cage door, how much of a difference would you have made to the robin's life? All it would know was the view through the bars.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Why should women have to give up their name upon marriage, as if they are nothing but hood ornaments to their husbands! And why should a child be identified only by their father’s name and not the mother’s, who by the way, is the root of all creation - who is creation! We are never going to have a civilized society with equity as foundation, unless we acknowledge and abolish such filthy habits that we’ve been practicing as tradition.

Showing off our skin-deep support for equality few days a year doesn’t eliminate all the discriminations from the world, we have to live each day as the walking proof of equality, ascension and assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Women belong in all places where... F*** it! Women belong. Period.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“- We take our chances if we go out after darkness.
We often walk down the middle of the road at night.
- Same.
- We know that every close or alley or road might appear like it has an exit, but it may in fact be one without an end.
- Aye.
- If the State wanted us less dead, they'd do more about our murders.
- They don't?
- It depends.”
― Jenni Fagan, Hex

“Let's examine the second accusation first: the idea that pornography is degrading to women. Degrading is a subjective term. Personally, I find detergent commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading to women. I find movies in which prostitutes are treated like ignorant drug addicts to be slander against women. Every woman has the right-the need!-to define degradation for herself.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“The whistle buried under my skin and became a permanent part of me. I had a radar for certain eyes afterward. It was a heightened awareness of the bad shit that could happen if I wasn't careful, and I could adjust the degree of it, but I would never be able to turn it off.”
― Deb Caletti, Girl, Unframed

“O Lady.
You are the flower of God's garden
That God sent on earth to scent this world
You are the strength of God's Power.
That God Sent on earth to make humans strong
You are the dew of God's kindness
That God sent on earth to teach humanity
You are the masterpiece of his creation.
That God sent on earthTo make this world beautiful and worth living
Wishing you a very Happy Women's day
Thank you for making this world better.
Peace and love..”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“Big Cabinet meeting on our program through Justice dept. to wipe out legal discriminations against women. We've changed 27 laws, have 60 more in process & today approved some more.”
― Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries

“They don't want to be men, only to be allowed to have a say. God wouldn't have given us feet if He didn't want us to walk. By the same token, why give us a brain if He didn't want us to have thoughts?”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had ever slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

“Freedom of Dress (The Sonnet)

Freedom of dress is as important,
As freedom of press, that's common sense.
If we're still stuck with squabbles on clothes,
When will we manifest character's radiance!
What does it matter, what we wear,
As long as we walk with our head held high!
Anything that strengthens our backbone,
Is worth the fight of a thousand lifetime.
Clothes perish, so does the body in them,
But a well-built character keeps on shining.
Focus on conduct across all shallow exterior,
Let burning dogs burn, you just keep dazzling.
I repeat, heed not the honks of primeval puritans.
Own your booty and trample all condemnation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“If someone commits an unwelcome touch in front of me, I'll go to jail later, they'll lose their limb first.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“Woman empowered is civilization empowered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Sexually correct history considers the graphic depiction of sex to be the traditional and immutable enemy of women's freedom. Exactly the opposite is true.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“The husband business strikes Miss Sweetie as uncannily similar to the scramble that ensues during an Easter egg hunt, where the egg's only hope is to sit as prettily as possible so that the it will be picked up before it spoils”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“The Fifteenth was supposed to improve our lot, giving our men the vote. But the man started taking it all away. It's like they put a plate of hot biscuits in front of us, but before we get a chance to eat, they say that'll be five dollars. And if you come up with the five dollars, they say no, no, no. You gotta tell us, if you got sixteen hens and thirty-seven rooster, where is Rutherford B. Hayes buried?... It's a trick question. Hayes is still alive. Point is they make it so hard”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“A man who raises his hand at a woman, has no right to the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“People keep using the term "pu**y" to refer to someone weak. I say, have you ever studied a "pu**y"? Let me tell you something as a biologist and behaviorist. A "pu**y" is ten times stronger and more resilient than any "d**k" in the world. A vagina can do whatever a penis can do, ten times more efficiently, and that too while bleeding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“To do so is condescending to that group, we don't hold them up to the same moral standard to which we hold ourselves, and it is grossly unfair to the women, who are simply being told that because they are tribal women, or whatever, they do not enjoy the same guarantees of liberty that other women do.”
― Martha C. Nussbaum, SEX AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

“Historically, feminism and pornography have been fellow travelers on the rocky road of unorthodoxy. This partnership was natural, perhaps inevitable. After all, both feminism and pornography flout the conventional notion that sex is necessarily connected to marriage or procreation. Both view women as sexual beings who should pursue their sexuality for pleasure and self-fulfillment.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“In the wake of two other Contagious Disease Acts (1866, 1868), prostitution became virtually a state-run industry. The government issued cards to women who were medically checked our and "registered." Then, they were allowed to work the streets. With unlimited powers of arrest, plainclothes policemen picked up women at random. Often, the police proceeded on the basis of gossip or reports from people who had grudges. Women who refused to be surgically examined could be detained at the magistrate's discretion and imprisoned at hard labor.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“In the social turbulence following the Civil War, thousands of men and women enlisted in a purity campaign. They sought to establish a single standard of sexual morality for both sexes. This was not a drive for greater freedom; it was a puritanical campaign to narrow the choices of individuals down to socially acceptable ones.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“For most of the nineteenth century, women were the chattel of their husbands. Men had legal title to their wives' property and wages, to children, and even to their wives' bodies. Women could be locked away in insane asylums at the discretion of their husbands or other male relatives. They had no voice in government. They could not enter into contracts without their husband's consent. Even labor unions shut out the most needy of workers: women. Those seats of enlightenment-the universities-locked their doors against women who dared to ask for knowledge. To be a woman was to be powerless.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“The issue that united the anti-slavery and feminist movements was a demand for the right of every human being to control his or her own body and property. This same principle is the core of individualist feminism today.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“Freelovers vehemently denied the state had any right to intervene in the sexual arrangements of consenting adults. They focused on empowering the weakest and most abused partner in sex: the woman.

There were two keys to securing sexual rights for women. The first was to reform the marriage laws, which gave husbands almost absolute authority over their wives. Marriage-free-lovers insisted-should be a voluntary and equal association between two people who shared a spiritual affinity.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“There were two keys to securing sexual rights for women. The first was to reform the marriage laws, which gave husbands almost absolute authority over their wives. Marriage-free-lovers insisted-should be a voluntary and equal association between two people who shared a spiritual affinity.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“Radical feminists have been distanced from their liberal counterparts. Ironically, however, they have become allied with another group of women: conservatives. Conservative women have been the bete noire of the feminist movement, because they oppose the full slate of feminist goals, from abortion to comparable worth. But these same women are willing to join hands with radical feminists on pornography. They are willing to march side-by-side in order to "take back the night." Why? Because they can co-opt the radical feminist agenda and use it for their own gains.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography

“A woman's body, a woman's right" applies not only to abortion, but to every peaceful activity a woman engages in. The law should come into play only when a woman initiates force or has force initiated against her.”
― Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography