#women

I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #beauty

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#equality #freedom #motherhood #women #women-s-rights

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world! ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#based #choose #christianity #death #fundamentalist

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#far #how #how far #incredible #sports

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#certain #certain things #daughter #empowered #get

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#awful #because #debate #great #ideal

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail. ↗

— David Duchovny

#equally #fail #must #never #notion

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#day #getting #late #little #little bit

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#family

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between. ↗

— Roma Downey

#between #endless #far #few #girlfriend