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It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

— Ernestine Rose

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

— Ernestine Rose

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

— Divyanka Tripathi

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

— Carolyn Maloney

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

— Alice Paul

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

— E. W. Howe

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

— Zainab Salbi

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

— Shirley Chisholm

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

— Toni Morrison

✗Opposing Perspectives

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi