Quotes About Equality

With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

I would love to do more modeling. I would love to do anything really, mainstream, and help to create, I guess, a feeling of acceptance for people who are different and not look at them like they're freaks or whatever.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

Models need to be unionized.

I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.

I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

Not all of us are born with the same role models and grasp things the same way.

All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors.

There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It's good to be a woman.

There are great female role models out there, and I just feel very proud to be able to represent them in my work.

My role models were Kevin Phillips and David Beckham, and, for me, now girls can look up to female footballers and want to aspire to be them and try to follow in their footsteps and even be better than us.

Models need to learn to speak up.

One thing we do, to be inclusive, is that when we shoot campaigns, we ensure to do so with models of different body types, skin colors and with those hailing from different cultures.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

There's room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.