women-s-rights

Freedom is to live with dignity

While significant strides have been made in the pursuit of life expectancy, healthcare, educational opportunities, and constitutional protections for women, the Supreme Court, in particular, still wrestles with their status, as evidenced by their problems in pursuing equal opportunity in education and employment, reproductive freedom, the military, and violence against women.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can__ take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can__ take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

I have a little moral trouble with the term __ankind_, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term __umanity_ over it, and the term __uman_ over __an_.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

The times today are too dangerous for the young and the smart to be not bothered. Know the truth. Remember, __e can deny the truth. But, we can__ avoid it._ We have been there; we have all been there. Ask a female friend who is fighting for a better pay scale, ask the father of an immigrant who is nervous about the future of his daughter, ask a gay friend who is fighting for the right to marry, ask an African-American friend who wants her younger brother to be unafraid and proud, ask a homeless worker in Bangladesh whose house just got swept by rising sea levels, ask a young child in Beijing who breathes an air polluted by fossil fuels, ask a child labor in India who works ten hours and twelve hours to get two square meals a day. And, when you ask, you will know. You will know why we need to take it personally.

A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.