Quotes About Equality

If everyone doesn't win, it's empty and useless.

It's my place to stand beside you, and support you, and yes, just fucking look pretty on your arm sometimes. It's my right, my duty, and my privilege, Eva, just as it's yours in reverse.

That compromise means you don't always have to be the strong one, Gideon. You can do the heavy lifting on occasion, and you can let Eva do it sometimes. Marriage isn't about whether you're strong enough as an individual. It's about how strong you are together and the luxury of taking turns carrying the load.

I need you to understand that you'll never have to settle for pieces of me. You shouldn't be settling at all. You deserve so much better. You could have anyone—

I can't change what happened, but I can sure as shit get pissed that you want to cut me off because of it. You laid out your rules and I adjusted to accommodate them, but you won't make even a tiny adjustment for me. You have to meet me halfway.

It's my place to stand beside you, and support you, and yes, just fucking look pretty on your arm sometimes. It's my right, my duty, and my privilege, Eva, just as it's yours in reverse." Excerpt From: Day, Sylvia. "Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel." PENGUIN group, 2012-10-02T05:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.

if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithful to him, to save him from his own lust. But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of soul,body and pride of man?

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of the soul, body and pride of man?

This hotel-the Amazon- was for women only, and they were mostly girls my age with wealthy parents who wanted to be sure their daughters would be living where men couldn't get at them and deceive them.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter—for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.…

Actually, it wasn't the idea of Buddy sleeping with somebody that bothered me. I mean I'd read about all sorts of people sleeping with each other, and if it had been any other boy I would merely have asked him the most interesting details, and maybe gone out and slept with somebody myself just to even things up, and then thought no more about it.

I hated the idea of serving men in any way.

Bir kad?n?n bir tek temiz yaÅŸant?s? olmas? gerektiÄŸi, oysa bir erkeÄŸin biri temiz, öteki temiz olmayan iki tane yaÅŸant?s? olabileceÄŸi düÅŸüncesi çileden ç?kar?yordu beni.

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan.

These are my hands My knees I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman

I couldn't stand the idea of women having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

The only quiet woman is a dead one

We ought to respect foreigners and distance ourselves from xenophobic attitudes. Racism should have no place in the Christian church.

The deal is this: if somebody isn't willing to receive his or her share, it must go to whoever will. The rain doesn't care who gets it and neither does money. At

A consumption tax like the VAT is paid by everybody, including those who pay no income tax and those who are in the country illegally.

Recently, there has been considerable public concern about the fact that 47% of Americans pay no income tax; the presidential candidate Mitt Romney opined that these are people "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them. . . . These are people who pay no income tax.