Women S Rights

🇺🇸William Lloyd Garrison

Journalism

abolitionism

1805–1879

"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."

🇺🇸Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Law

1933–2020

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."

🇺🇸Samantha Power

Politics

b. 1970

"Fun Couple of the 21st Century" on Power and Cass Sunstein in Esquire"

🇺🇸Harriet Tubman

Social Activism

1822–1913

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

🇬🇧Mary Astell

Philosophy

1666–1731

"Some reflections upon marriage: with additions"

Frances Power Cobbe

Social Activism

1822–1904

"We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue."

🇮🇳Arundhati Roy

Literature

b. 1961

"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability."