Quotes About Equality

There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.

For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.

It's actually sexist to accuse men as a whole of something, you know? It's just - I don't know. A guy can't even open a door for a lady without being called a pig.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Men have been domesticated, and I don't think it's necessarily good for them. They have been emasculated with the pill and women becoming more independent. I do think it's made a big difference for women to have more charge of their own bodies. It's made them feel more on equal terms and made the men feel less secure, less the master of everything.

If you think about 'The Pill' by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women - country listeners and beyond - that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot - ditch the heels!

Do you know there were two pilots made for 'Have I Got News For You' before the series started two decades ago: one hosted by Angus Deayton and one hosted by me. But I was told that they couldn't have a woman in charge of the news.

I think women make better pilots.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me.

Pink looks good on everyone.

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

I am proud to say that our industry is making films like 'PINK,' 'Maatr,' and 'Mom.'

I sort of throw away the definitions of gender - that boys are 'supposed' to wear blue and girls are 'supposed' to wear pink - and those gender roles and gender presentations. I do it on my own terms rather than based on what other people say I should do.