Hillary Clinton Quotes

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off.

A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

I want to empower women.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Equality for women is progress for all.

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

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization that the battle for women's rights is not over, especially not globally, and that the moral imperative of our century is to achieve full rights for everyone regardless of gender.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.