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Quotes About Equality

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.
~ Gerda Lerner
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.
~ Fatema Mernissi
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.
~ Miuccia Prada
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
~ Dale Spender
Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.
~ Ibtihaj Muhammad
Women power is a formidable force.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.
~ Hillary Clinton
Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.
~ Matilda Joslyn Gage
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
~ Jane Rule
The enemy of feminism isn't men. It's patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.
~ Justine Musk
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.
~ Vera Brittain
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
~ Margaret Mead
English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.
~ Miriam A. Ferguson
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
~ Melinda Gates
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
~ Holly Near
People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.
~ Gertrude Ederle
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained
~ Carlos Castaneda
I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.
~ Amy Dumas
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
~ H. G. Wells
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
~ Viola Davis