No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving praise showered on the “real woman”; nor be won over by men’s enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...

No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back.

The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible. Whatever the Bible may be made to do in Hebrew or Greek, in plain English it does not exalt and dignify woman.

"For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - "our place.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...

It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number.

They would allow no woman to be forced to marry against her will they told the newcomers, nor would they surrender any suppliant, no matter how feeble, and no matter how powerful the pursuer.

Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

Never let a gynecologist put anything in your nose.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude.