Quotes About Women Emancipation

#1. The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America. - Author: John Shelby Spong

#2. The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women - Author: Thomas Sankara

#3. Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere? - Author: Annie Lennox

#4. The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or if not Jews, then Christians; women's sexuality - both the fear of a "past" and the dread of present emancipation signaled by the absence of a veil. - Author: Geraldine Brooks

#5. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#6. The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky. - Author: Thomas Sankara

#7. The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning. - Author: Amelia Bloomer

#8. The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself. - Author: Adolf Hitler

#9. The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free - Author: Amelia Bloomer

#10. The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog; we can also be soft. It's interesting, because sometimes I maybe push the men a little bit more than the women, because it's a little bit less expected. - Author: Mario Testino

#11. The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#12. The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation. - Author: A.J.P. Taylor

#13. If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. - Author: Victoria Woodhull

#14. I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army. - Author: Petra Kelly

#15. A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. - Author: Kate Millett

#16. The only known cure for poverty is emancipation of women - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#17. The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time. - Author: Friedrich Engels

#18. Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel ... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. - Author: Susan B. Anthony

#19. We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation. - Author: Tennessee Celeste Claflin

#20. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. - Author: Saddam Hussein

#21. Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation . - Author: Kumari Jayawardena

#22. Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man's equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation. - Author: Margaret Sanger

#23. Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. - Author: Susan Sontag

#24. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked. - Author: Nina Power

#25. Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained. - Author: Lalita Tademy

#26. Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large. - Author: George Steiner

#27. Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression ... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#28. The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. - Author: James McGreevey

#29. A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar, - and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women, - before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life. - Author: Frederick Douglass

#30. The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and laid the ethical basis for the emancipation of women, the reforms of the New Deal and, later, the civil rights movement. - Author: Charles Murray

#31. For Sade, man's emancipation is consummated in these strongholds of
debauchery where a kind of bureaucracy of vice rules over the life and death of the men and women who
have committed themselves forever to the hell of their desires. - Author: Albert Camus

#32. The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. - Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#33. Women's history is the
primary tool for women's emancipation. - Author: Gerda Lerner

#34. Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. - Author: Grace Kelly

#35. Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent. - Author: Susan Vreeland

#36. Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. - Author: Camille Paglia

#37. The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. - Author: Honore De Balzac

#38. It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go. - Author: Jo Baker

#39. The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. - Author: Ellen Key

#40. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time. - Author: Khaled Hosseini

#41. We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women - Author: Yip Harburg

#42. In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women. - Author: Angela Carter