Quotes About Equality

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

no man is above the law and that includes the president of the United States

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.