Quotes About Equality

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?

To transform inequality in the outside world, we have to start inside the home. We have to get rid of the old idea that what happens to men is political, and therefore subject to change, but what happens to women is cultural, and therefore can't, or shouldn't, be changed.

For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

The first step toward speaking for others is speaking for ourselves.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.

For sad if obvious reasons, women (especially white women who are seduced by access to the powerful) are the only discriminated-against group whose members seem to think that, if they don't take themselves seriously, someone else will.

punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.

Adalah revolusionar bagi perempuan untuk menyanyikan kepedihan, tapi lebih lagi bila ia menyanyikan seluruh lagu kehidupan

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

Power is being redefined. Women often explain with care that we mean power to control our lives, but not to dominate others.

In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.

Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.

Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And

and other women of color, the result might well have been even more dramatic. After all, if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also racism and sexism are intertwined—as Mrs. Greene and millions of others experienced—and cannot be uprooted separately.

It doesn't matter if you love the people society says you shouldn't love or do or don't have children with more than one of them; it doesn't matter if you have money, go to church, or obey the law; what matters is that you're not cruel or wasteful, that you don't keep the truth from those who need it, suppress someone's will or talent, take more than you need from nature, or fail to use your own talent and will.