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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

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

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

As a woman standing up here, we have to fight for the rights of women.

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