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Quotes About Equality

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.
~ Runoko Rashidi
Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
~ Marilyn Monroe
. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
~ Clara Zetkin
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
~ Susan Faludi
I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.
~ Elizabeth Holmes
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
~ Betty Friedan
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.
~ Julian Bond
Men never fail to underestimate women.
~ Zhao Yun
A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.
~ Wafa Sultan
This is an issue that women are not interested in debating.
~ Rona Ambrose
With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!
~ Qiu Jin
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
~ Robin Morgan
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
~ Chaka Khan
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
~ Martha Graham
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
~ Beverly Sills
A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.
~ Dorothy Thompson
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
~ Gloria Steinem
I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.
~ Roberto Cavalli
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
~ Ida B. Wells
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
~ Yul Brynner
Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.
~ Robin Lim