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Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

— Martha Griffiths

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

— Annie Lennox

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

— Sonia Johnson

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

— Divyanka Tripathi

Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.

— Manju Warrier

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

— Louise Slaughter

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

— Warren Farrell

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

— William Cobbett

In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

✗Opposing Perspectives

Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

— Rand Paul

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

— Susan B. Anthony