Rights Quotes
Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.
I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced, ” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.
Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All of us marching, rainbow to the core?
Peace and gladness in every home is a peace for the society, nation and the world.
A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'Albert Einstein
Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.
A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.
All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.
There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.
If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.
Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer
Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.
Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.
We create our work for children not because they're "cute, " but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.
When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.
Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.
Children will often rise or fall accordingto the expectations of loved ones in their lives.
The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.
The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.
Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now.
She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...
In India, a "bride burning"-- to punish a woman for inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry-- takes place approximately once every two hours, but rarely constitute news.
Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates. Yet when the government is not directly involved people shrug.
Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.
As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.
When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.
My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.
Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.
This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world.
I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
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.
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.
When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.
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.
No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.Me.