Protecting Women Quotes

#1. It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.

Zainab Salbi

#2. I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.

Dr. Willie Parker

#3. A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women.

Avijeet Das

#4. Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

Warren Farrell

#5. When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

Patricia Schroeder

#6. Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

Warren Farrell

#7. To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

Betty Friedan

#8. You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.

Gillian Flynn

#9. I'm definitely happier dancing in Germany; in the U.S., there's a different level of competition. I find in general that I try to get my voice heard about protecting women. It comes from everything I've been through personally - I'm opinionated, and that doesn't make it that easy.

Sarah Hay

#10. Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#11. I'm not only my father's daughter, but also a daughter of the nation he founded. And protecting both is what I've always done.

Laura Kamoie

#12. Women have always been courageous ... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Isabel Allende

#13. And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

John Hersey

#14. A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. That woman needs protecting like Rambo needs a bodyguard.

Jennifer Crusie

#16. The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Harry A. Blackmun

#17. We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

Barack Obama

#18. Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Sinclair Lewis

#19. Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate ... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

Barbara Boxer

#20. We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

George Allen

#21. The issue of providing women all forms of preventative health care has been and remains very important. The, the importance of protecting religious liberties in this country has been important to the president and will always be.

Jacob Lew

#22. Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Daisaku Ikeda

#23. Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

Eleanor Smeal

#24. And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#25. I am honored to receive the TED Prize, but it's not about me; it's about our field - and the thousands of men and women around the world, particularly in the Middle East, who are defending and protecting sites.

Sarah Parcak

#26. An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

Robert Jordan

#27. I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

James Anderson

#28. I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.

Gabrielle Dennis

#29. Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

Florence King

#30. Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Gore Vidal

#31. Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

Maya Angelou

#32. Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.

Virginia Woolf