Women Rights Quotes

“A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.”
― Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed

“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“If you wished to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.”
― Bacha Khan

“Peygamber dedi: 'Kadın akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.' İncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk'ın ışığıdır; sevgili değil. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Masnavi I Ma'navi

“Women have learned to love different parts of their bodies based on what men like…But I wonder which parts of a woman’s body does she like for herself?”
― Scarlet Jei Saoirse, Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud

“A mother's life is an ocean of resilience beyond our imagination.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“The wheels of our cultural “moral compass” run on the racist belief that women are somehow less privileged than males – and therefore many women don’t ever belong to even the sense of belonging.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Isn’t that momentous? Women! A krewe of women. Turning the tide on men! We are making history here. Yes, this moment! Making history.” The woman had barely taken a breath. She tapped Constance on the arm and picked up her fork to begin her hors d’oeuvre of boudin-stuffed mushrooms.
Constance leaned toward the woman as if wishing to speak more directly. In truth, she wanted to see the name on the place card. She had time to make out only the first name: Marianne. “Ah, yes, Marianne,” she said. “It is history, isn’t it? You are so very right.”
“It is time that women spoke up for themselves, did for themselves, and we are part of that wave that will surely come to shore when we get the vote. But for now, having our own ball will have to suffice.”
The woman turned to her neighbor on the other side.
“Indeed.” Constance finished the last bit of mushroom, speaking to the air. Her fork clanged on the plate as the uniformed server whisked it away. It was replaced immediately with a sumptuous, but unpretentious luncheon plate of shrimp and asparagus, with a decorative sprig of green grapes.”
― Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

“Estaba por todas partes. En los eufemismos y las lítotes de mi agenda, en los ojos saltones de Jean T., en los matrimonios forzados, en el filme "Los paraguas de Cheburgo", en la vergüenza de las mujeres que abortaban y en la reprobación de las otras. En la imposibilidad absoluta de imaginar que un día las mujeres pudieran decidir abortar libremente. Y, como de costumbre, era imposible determinar si el aborto estaba prohibido porque estaba mal o estaba mal porque estaba prohibido. Se juzgaba con relación a la ley, no se juzgaba la ley.”
― Annie Ernaux, Happening

“I don't need a fancy title to do what is right. And title or not, I am a young woman in an old man's world. The only way I'll ever gain respect is if I take it, something none of you here would understand.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Life of Most Girls in Lahore!
To all their life they're told that they can do whatever they want. However when it comes to the matrimonial topic, parents are intent to clip their wings. It hurts that first someone shows you how to fly and then suddenly encage you.”
― Aroosa Fatima

“To all their life they're told that they can do whatever they want. However when it comes to the matrimonial topic, parents are intent to clip their wings. It hurts that first someone shows you how to fly and then suddenly encage you.
Life of Most Girls in Lahore!”
― Aroosa Fatima

“Wish I were fairy godmother, I could have changed even fates of girls.”
― Aroosa Fatima

“Wish I were a fairy godmother, I could have changed even fates of girls.”
― Aroosa Fatima

“It was as though the throttling nature of the cloth against her mouth wanted to sentence her to a lifetime of silence.”
― Insha Juneja, Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories

“Do not burn her wings,
Do not cage her being,
and see the magic begins.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Is it not ironical that the commercial market economy has a financially valued analogy for every item of housework a homemaker does on a daily basis without payment? Restaurant meals provide the parallel for preparing, cooking and serving food. Laundering services provide the analogy for washing and ironing. Housecleaning can be done professionally by professional housekeepers and domestic maids. Crèches, play-houses and baby sitters can take care of small children. These services need to be paid for and thus they are computed while measuring the GNP. But a homemaker provides all these services for free, so her services are kept out of evaluation and measurement of GNP.”
― Shoma A. Chatterji, The Female Gaze: Essays on Gender, Society and Media

“You cannot continue to have ONLY TWO gender specific categories in any field anymore. We need to open up the spaces and recognise other genders too. In your SHOWS, have Trans categories. Have Gay categories. Have men categories. Have Women categories. And so on. INCLUDE EVERYBODY.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“No girl should have to go through the heartache of forced conversion.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“When you can leave the past behind you, the future vividly awaits.”
― Norah Marler

“Modern world allows women to be subjected to rape through the eyes, minds, hands, and words of men.”
― Rashid Jorvee

“If I wear a white coat and a stethoscope, and "identify" as a Doctor... does it make me a doctor? No! It makes me a liar and a criminal who's misleading people to gain economically and socially while causing harm to others.

So, what's the difference with men who identify as women to get their jobs, their sports achievements, and to take away their privacy? Female's rights are under attack.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Margarita scanned the crowd coming up the stairs and found the woman Korovyov was pointing to. She was a young woman of about twenty, with an unusually stunning figure, but with agitated and insistent eyes.
"What handkerchief?" asked Margarita.
"She has a chambermaid assigned to her," explained Korovyov, "and every night for thirty years the maid has laid out a handkerchief for her on her night table. The minute she wakes up she sees it there. She's tried burning it in the stove and drowning it in the river, but nothing helps.
"What kind of handkerchief?" whispered Margarita, raising and lowering her hand.
"A handkerchief with a dark-blue border. The fact is that when she was a waitress in a cafe, her boss lured her into the storeroom one day, and nine months later she gave birth to a baby boy, carried him into the woods, stuffed the handkerchief in his mouth, and then buried him in the ground. At her trial she said she had nothing to feed the child."
"And where's the owner of the cafe?" asked Margarita.
"Your Majesty," squeaked the cat suddenly from below." Allow me to ask you: what does the owner have to do with this? he wasn't the one who smothered the baby in the woods!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita / A Young Doctor's Notebook / The White Guard / A Dog's Heart

“We need more activists. We need more awareness.”
― George W. Bush Institute, We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope

“Society’s moral and relational expectations of women pressure them to forgive their offenders, even if doing so puts their safety at risk.”
― Amanda Ann Gregory, You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms

“For every girl lacing up her sneakers, stepping onto the field, or diving into the pool, this isn’t just about sports. It’s about respect. It’s about equality. - A Step Backward: The Fight for Equity in Women's Sports Continues (blog)”
― Carlos Wallace

“WOMEN, WEAR YOUR CROWNS
and be ready to WIN the 8th House battle.

The story of Venus, Ishtar, is clear in that she won the 8th House battle. She conquered the 8th House with grace.

I’d like all women who are suffering at the hands of men to know that I unshakably stand with you in this 8th House battle.

You will not take off your crown. You will continue to fight with your crown on. You will not quit. Even when tired, you will fight head on.
And you will conquer all 8th House themes experienced through the 8th House Lord, Mars, the male figure. You will come out strong and be rewarded for your undeniable strength.

May the spirit of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela be over the women of South Africa who experience GBV; the women of the UK whose rights are stolen in broad daylight; the women of Afghanistan, who literally don’t even have the right to speak; and all women and young girls facing every form of horrific trauma and abuse at the hands of Mars, the male figure.

Bafazi, we are the Word. The Word is in us. The Word is us. We existed before they existed. We birthed them. We have more power over them. Just find it in you. Start with the men around you. Educate them. Discuss with them. Debate them. Challenge them. One Mars at a time.

Once a woman decides it’s done, it will indeed be done.

Aluta continua, bafazi! Amandla kwiimbokodo ezingophukiyo...Amandla!!”
― Mitta Xinindlu