Erica Jong Quotes

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

While the overall goal of any society must be to educate all its members, at this stage in human history the greatest need is to educate women and girls. For over twenty years, studies have consistently documented that, of all possible investments, educating women and girls pays the highest overall dividends in terms of social development, the eradication of poverty and the advancement of community.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.

When Donald Trump says, "Let's make America great again," that is code for let's take America backward. Back to a time when opportunity and dignity were reserved for some, not all. Back to the days when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women and girls was limited. Well, Donald, those days are over.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

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.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

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

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.

Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.