Quotes About Equality

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

We want to say to everyone: New Jersey's a place where gender does not play a role in how much you get paid.

Men and women should be paid equally.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?

I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.

On my show, nobody's being paid more than me. I don't ask what they're being paid - I just make sure they're not getting more than me.

A female newcomer and a male newcomer will get paid different amounts of money. You're a newcomer, nobody knows who you are, man or woman doesn't matter. But you're going to get paid different money.

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

Our country has a painful history of mistrust between police departments and people of color. The overuse of stop-and-frisk has made those divisions much worse.

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.

That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

If you have an issue with someone, call them out. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

You can pair me up with anybody but that's not a nice thing to do. I should also be comfortable to make male friends.

If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.

Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.