Quotes About Equality

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

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

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Women with whiskers... its a bummer.

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.