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

Women struggled to enter the all-male professional schools. Dr. Harriot Hunt, a woman physician who began to practice in 1835, was twice refused admission to Harvard Medical School. But she carried on...