Today, Aug. 26, marks Women’s Equality Day.
Women’s Equality Day is a day that started in the U.S. in 1971 that serves to promote women having equal rights as men in all facets of life.
Here are six quotes to celebrate Women’s Equality Day:
- “A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.” -Jostein Gaarder
- “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
- “Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.” -Mahatma Gandhi
- “The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes” -Bella Abzug
- “Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.” -Cassandra Duffy
- “Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.” -Pearl S. Buck
What’s your favorite Women’s Equality Day quote? Make sure to post it on Facebook and Twitter.
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