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Quotes About Equality

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.
~ Emily Post
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
~ Madeleine Albright
Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.
~ Ita Buttrose
If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
~ bell hooks
My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.
~ Michelle Bachelet
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.
~ Bjork
Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.
~ Julie Foudy
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
~ Chinua Achebe
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
~ Vidal Sassoon
The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
~ Cynthia Heimel
Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.
~ Lucy R. Lippard
I love all of you men, but you women even more!
~ Strom Thurmond
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
~ George Carey
Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'
~ Kumi Naidoo
Equality for women is progress for all.
~ Ban Ki-moon
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
~ Agnes Macphail
Let's just put it this way: if you think there's a thing – anything – women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.
~ Kameron Hurley
I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.
~ Jenna Jameson
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.
~ Frederick Lenz