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Quotes About Inequality

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
~ Barbara Jordan
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.
~ Vida Goldstein
Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.
~ Emma Watson
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
~ Mary Astell
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.
~ Manohla Dargis
Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.
~ Ntozake Shange
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.
~ Jack Nicholson
We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
~ Ian Mckellen
When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.
~ David Gilmour
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
~ Harriet Martineau
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
~ Melinda Gates
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
~ Shulamith Firestone
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.
~ Taslima Nasrin
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
~ Antonia Fraser
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don't love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman
~ Jessica Valenti
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.
~ Katharine Susannah Prichard
Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
~ Erica Jong
Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
~ Jerry Lewis
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
~ Pete Townshend
Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.
~ Mitt Romney
Football is the biggest sport in Norway for girls and has been for years, but at the same time, girls don't have the same opportunities as the boys.
~ Ada Hegerberg