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

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights and governments need to learn from that listen to the movement and respond.

Until women learn to want economic independence and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power entitled to leadership.

I want for myself what I want for other women absolute equality.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter control or singly cope with.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water who fetch firewood who provide food for their families.

We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs education health reform the DREAM Act equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education which enables a better life for women.

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education they're accelerating their numbers in upper management too.