Quotes About Diversity

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

What would bug a guy from the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.