#wome

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#deprived #history #iranian #just #past

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#american #american football #ball #ball games #baseball

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#home #inside #north #oppressed #outside

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#enjoy #freedoms #lives #men #men and women

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body. ↗

— Gary Neville

#body #champions #important #mind #more

Women love an honest man. ↗

— Rita Ora

#honest man #love #man #women

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate. ↗

— Carre Otis

#am #daughter #friend #i #i am

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation. ↗

— Carre Otis

#commit #equality #fought #hard #i

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. ↗

— Carre Otis

#deny #depicting #i #i think #images