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Quotes About Equality

My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.
~ Agatha Christie
Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple
~ Agatha Christie
To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.
~ Agatha Christie
And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?
~ Agatha Christie
The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.
~ Agatha Christie
Marriage, especially at my age, is not to be undertaken without full–er–consideration. Equality of birth, similarity of tastes, general suitability, and the same religious creed–all these things are necessary and the pros and cons have to be weighed and considered.
~ Agatha Christie
When a man has a charming, gracious, intelligent wife, he's no business to treat her badly.
~ Agatha Christie
It has always seemed to me so extraordinary that a woman should go so far in the scientific world. I should have thought a purely masculine brain was needed for such work.
~ Agatha Christie
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.
~ Agatha Christie
One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.
~ Agatha Christie
Derisi ne renk olursa olsun herkes insand?r. Bütün insanlar karde?tir.
~ Agatha Christie
There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said dryly: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!
~ Agatha Christie
As pessoas são realmente muito parecidas em todos os lugares.
~ Agatha Christie
You do not like anyone less because they have tuberculosis or some other fatal disease.
~ Agatha Christie
I'm a man. You're a woman." "Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.
~ Agatha Christie
That is where you make a mistake, dear," said Miss Marple. "Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.
~ Agatha Christie
I'd rather a man felt that he was enjoying himself looking after me than that he should feel I was a duty to be attended to
~ Agatha Christie
No greater mistake than to think that because a man's tied by the leg it affects his brain pan. Not a bit of it.
~ Agatha Christie
But me, I am scrupulously fair. I look always on both sides. Let us examine what occurred if Carol Boynton was innocent. She returns to the camp. She goes up to her stepmother and she finds her, shall we say, dead.
~ Agatha Christie
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
~ Agnes Macphail
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.
~ Agnes Macphail
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
~ Agnes Macphail
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
~ Agnes Smedley
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
~ Agnes Smedley