#omens

You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group. ↗

— Ron Paul

#civil-rights #equal-rights #freedom #gay-rights #liberty

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. ↗

— Robert Burns

#equality #human-rights #politics #women #womens-rights

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions? ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauvoir #emotion #et-cetera #etc #etcetera

Having a baby is the single mos joyous co-experience that two human beings can share, and he wasn't going to miss a second of it. He got one of the Secret Service men to videotape it for him. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#having-a-baby #experience

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#feminism #men #murder #widowhood #women

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#womens-rights #faith

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. ↗

— John Irving

#freedom-of-choice #mysogyny #womens-rights #freedom

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#funny #good-omens #humour #neil-gaiman #terry-prachett

God is funny. He had a funny day when he made me. A funny, thoughtful, crazy day. He gave me a physique by which I would be so easily and so quickly judged, then gave me a mind by which I would so deeply magnetize, He put within me a heart with small, fast wings that I can hardly, barely handle, and then gave me a voice that hides behind everything in whispers. Oh, and also put a pen in my hand which writes me into madness! How can anyone possibly understand me? But I don't think God cared about that thought, when He made me! How ridiculously unfair! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humor #humour #inspirational-quotes #self-discovery #self-reflections

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gender-roles #suffrage #womens-rights #men