Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.

Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

#MeToo is a welcome change, and I would encourage women to call out sexual harassment issues in their workplaces.

You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

In fact, I had never imagined that seven years after my ordeal, the #MeToo movement will start and that I will be talking about it all over again. This is nothing but karma. Dibakar has directed six...

I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.

Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control of important life decisions that are so often decided by others.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough...

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.

Power has always been held by those who manage to control the origins of life by controlling women's bodies.

The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind

Be a girl with a mind, beauty and talents!

Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.

"So you're the infamous Manal al-Sharif," he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. "Aren't you ashamed of what you did? Is driving a car something shameful?" I answered back.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

It was the women of Afghanistan, my mother believed, who - once they'd been granted access to books and education - would be the salvation of the country

But it was a moral issue, too, and a number of Northern women felt they had an obligation to fight an institution that broke up families and subjected young women to sexual molestation. Abolition of...

India's rape law, enshrined in the colonial - era Indian Penal Code, placed the burden of the victim to establish her 'good character' and prove that a rape had occurred, which left her open to...

Until very recently, married women were addressed by their husbands' names, prefixed by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Brontë and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's...

Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. If our voices are essential aspects of our humanity, to be...

Violence never worked in the service of women.

Of course, some people's "decadence" is other people's "liberation;" the exhaustion with child - bearing a child - rearing that Douthat finds so troubling is the weariness of women who've borne the...

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent on anyone, especially a man, because the minute you are dependent, you could be abused.

But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom