women-s-rights

Women__ status in society has become the standard by which humanity__ progress toward civility and peace can be measured._-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

I wonder how can I ever work for an organization that pollutes the world and refuses to clean up and sometimes even own up. And, I wonder how on earth can I work for an organization where one of my fellow classmates wouldn__ get the same paycheck and the same perks and the same benefits as I would simply because she is a girl.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

Using one__ beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that__ how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women's refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says, 'Oh, I'm not a feminist', I ask, 'Why? What's your problem?

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

The emergency of women is the emergency of the world.

This is when the pill became widely known as The Pill, perhaps the only product in American history so powerful that it needed no name. Women went to their doctors and said they wanted it. They wanted The Pill. Some of them might still have been uncomfortable talking about birth control. Others might have been unsure of its brand name. But The Pill was The Pill because it was the only one that mattered, the one everyone was talking about, the one they needed.

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.

She was a spiky teenager rebelling against the soul-suck mirror reflected back at her in her mother__ blank stare, her question mark of a spine. Determined to beat the odds, she completed high school with distinction. But there was a caveat. Beydan was allowed to roam and educate herself _ up to a point. On her eighteenth birthday her Father sat her down and held out his Rolexed wrist. Studded with crystals and flecks of diamond, the watch dazzled in the light. All Beydan could hear, however, was tick-tock-tick-tick-tick-tick - time to neatly fold all her hard work, to parcel up her progress, send it to the attic in her subconscious and let dust gather on her dreams. There was a lump in her throat and a stopwatch in her womb.

Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman _ it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire.

When my brother,_, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: __ust my luck!_ he would say. __hat a pity she was not born a man!_ But then I gradually realized that people were saying __t__ bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good,_ and since I have avoided writing the simplest character.

With the way a lot of men function, I'd say "single" womyn are a threat to society. In fact, I'd go as single womyn are a threat to the system. As a womyn, if you aren't spending all your time looking for what you were socialized to, you're doing something productive. I'd say that scares a hell of a lot of people.

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.