Women Dignity Quotes

#1. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf

#2. The best don't stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts to build societies in which slavery truly is a term for the history books.

Ban Ki-moon

#4. Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

Andrea Dworkin

#5. When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.

Aurin Squire

#6. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.

Jay Leno

#8. When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. Encourage the women in your life - your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters - to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

Lundy Bancroft

#10. I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

Carly Fiorina

#11. Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

Honore De Balzac

#12. A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Wally Lamb

#13. It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#14. This is not just about women. We men need to recognize the part we play, too. Real men treat women with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Prince Harry

#15. I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Michelle Obama

#16. I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

Salma Hayek

#17. Yes. Laugh. But there's sense in the old rules. They kept people out of trouble.' He was annoyed because I laughed, and said that a woman in my position needed extra dignity of behaviour. 'What position?' - I was suddenly very angry, because of the trapped feeling women get at such moments.

Doris Lessing

#18. Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated ... ' - Hannah More

Karen Swallow Prior

#19. If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Elizabeth I

#20. On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

Nancy Keenan

#21. No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!

Widad Akreyi

#22. Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

John C. McGinley

#23. AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor.No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.

Laura Bush

#24. Isn't it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

Zack Love

#25. When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

Jason Evert

#26. Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#27. Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.

Miuccia Prada

#28. When I talk with women who have had wonderful experiences in the military it's because their commanders treated them with respect and dignity and gave them equality with their peers that was unparalleled in their lives.

Amy Ziering

#29. Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

Francis Parker Yockey

#30. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf

#31. Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

Miya Yamanouchi

#32. If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.

Martin O'Malley

#33. The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

Nawal El Saadawi

#34. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Virginia Woolf

#35. When the same lessons of life that taught them teaches you, you get a good understanding of what made them become who and what they became; you appreciate them better and you uphold the dignity of their integrity in high esteem!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#37. Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.

Christabel Pankhurst

#38. So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

Malala Yousafzai

#39. There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

Vicente Fox

#40. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Elizabeth I

#41. The danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto equality with men, in social dignity and in opportunity for public responsibility.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

#42. All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.

Gillian Flynn

#43. I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.

Vladimir Putin

#44. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

#45. Many women crush their own dignity to be with a man. You have to be strong and learn to let go if he's not treating you right!

S.C. Jax

#46. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Bronte

#47. Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.

Pope John Paul II

#48. Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

L'Wren Scott

#49. Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Alfred De Musset

#50. I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#51. You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#52. Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less.

Nouman Ali Khan

#53. Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

Youssou N'Dour

#54. More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

Barbara Boxer

#55. I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

Ban Ki-moon

#56. Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

Eliza Lynn Linton

#57. The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

Laura Bush

#58. Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. A lady kept up appearances and never lost her dignity - even when her world had just shattered around her in the stall of the women's bathroom.

Carolyn Brown