Quotes About Women

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter they're considered crazy people or something.

For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.