Madeleine Albright Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine Albright ...there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Susan B. Anthony I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.
Susan B. Anthony I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value.
Susan B. Anthony There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Shirley Chisholm In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: antihumanism.
Shirley Chisholm I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black.
Shirley Chisholm All we want is what you want, no less and no more.
Amelia Earhart The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Betty Friedan The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg I don’t say women’s rights — I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
Lucretia Mott We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Lucretia Mott The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
Sandra Day O'Connor The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
Alice Paul There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
Frances Perkins Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Gloria Steinem Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
Lucy Stone "We, the people of the United States." Which "We, the people"? The women were not included.
Lucy Stone A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers.
Sojourner Truth If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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