Quotes About Equality

Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

Sometimes you feel all alone. You come out of a meeting, and something sexist has been said to you: That movie will never be made with that female lead. And you think, 'How am I ever gonna get another job?' When you hear other women having the same experiences, it makes you feel like, 'Well, I'm gonna keep going, and we're gonna fight this system.'

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.

I'm just really proud of the Democratic caucus. I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.

Going to meetings for Time's Up has been deeply affirming for me.

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

I can walk into meetings now and ask for equal pay, and the people will listen to me. They may not give it to me, but I will be listened to. That's huge.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time.

The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.

As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a day, every day.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I'm gonna make somebody pay for what they've done to my community and to my people!