Quotes About Equality

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.

The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own.

And in those days, girls like Sadie were conditioned to ignore the sexist generally, not just in gaming—it wasn't cool to point such things out. If you wanted to play with the boys, they couldn't be afraid of saying things around you.

The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

Enough is…Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.

Just because something is a small problem doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed. Small injustices conceal larger ones" -Anya

What suit jacket would say "supportive," "feminist," "unbroken," "optimistic"? What one effing suit jacket could possibly accomplish that?

the first topic that comes to mind is often a woman's right to choose or sexual assault, but I believe the most important women's issue is the wage gap. I believe this is the root issue from which all other inequalities stem . . .

The problem with it is that gender exists," she said. "Differences exist, and the law must acknowledge that or the law isn't fair.

What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices, Aviva, but you have a right to make them. Embeth Levin has a right to make them, too. Don't expect a parade." You

What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices

Their happiness is not her unhappiness. Unless it is. What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time? She should be nicer.

A man puts on a suit and a tie and an American flag pin, and that's the end of the story. He is a politician. A female politician's appearance is always a disputed territory, a matter of discussion.

I mean, I'm not not a feminist. I mean, I believe I'm a human before I'm a woman." You say this because you are young, and because you have the wrong idea about feminism.

The white man" represented "civilization" as a single human being defined equally by his whiteness and by his maleness.

I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute.

Give me back what should already be mine. Give me the dark, the freedom of the streets, the right to walk wherever I want, unafraid of rape or assault or just being messed with. The stars belong to me as much as you. Move over. Make room on the bench.

The lessons of those days were so basic: To view other women as allies rather than the competition. To unleash our intelligence, liberate our bodies, assume we were capable of things previously denied or unconsidered.

From a very early age, girls were taught to restrain themselves physically and emotionally.

An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could remain with her husband when he joined the Confederate Army. Amy continued to fight after he was killed, and she was wounded herself and taken prisoner.

The maximum weekly rate paid for women in domestic service in New England around the time of the Revolution was the same as the maximum daily rate for male farm laborers.

When public schools first began opening to girls, the curriculum was mainly based on memorization and beatings.