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Quotes About Equality

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.
~ Simon Doonan
The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.
~ Naomi Wolf
Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge
~ Kathleen Wynne
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
~ Fannie Barrier Williams
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
~ Emmeline B. Wells
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
~ Bob Geldof
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
~ Donatella Versace
Woman's cause is one and universal.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.
~ Henry Handel Richardson
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.
~ Jane Harman
My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.
~ Barbara Lee
Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.
~ Ian Somerhalder
I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
~ Brad Garrett
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
~ Bob Dylan
The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
~ Susan Faludi
What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
~ Meryl Streep
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
~ Billie Jean King
Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
~ Paulo Freire
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
~ Edith Wharton
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
~ Hillary Clinton
At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.
~ Jessica Fox