Friday Quote: Amal Clooney
If you are a woman lying on the beach in Maldives, You might want to know that a kilometre away another woman is being flogged. And you might want to…
If you are a woman lying on the beach in Maldives, You might want to know that a kilometre away another woman is being flogged. And you might want to…
'As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography; or religion; or culture. It is…
'If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, You can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you…
'Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - It fosters it'. Amal Clooney
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights. Amal Clooney
'As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is…
Men weren't really the enemy - They are fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill'. Betty…
“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before.…
A woman is handicapped by her sex, And handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, Or by refusing to compete with man at…
'It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society as men do, Than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, Compete with her neighbors…
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, But neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination. Betty Friedan
Men are not the enemy; But the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves'. Betty Friedan
“Women, if confined at home by faithful guardians, Are not really guarded; But those women who guard themselves by their own will, Are well guarded.” Eastern Proverb
''Gender stereotypes negatively affect men too; Fighting for gender equality helps everybody. As much as women face pressure to look and act in certain ways, men also deal with rigid…
You cant let your failures define your; You have to let your failures teach you'. Barack Obama
"We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us; And ensure our daughters have no limits on their dreams, No obstacle to their achievements and no…
Men must defy the structures of patricahy and outdated notions of manhood. And use that questioning to build more just societies. Winston Duke Actor/Activist
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor. It's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers , It's against a…
There are more than 500 million adolescent girls living in the developing world today. Every one of them can potentially help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, With ripple effects…
''Everything you want to be, You already are. You are simply on the path to discovering it. Alicia Keys