Quotes About Equality

Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen.

talking to him this morning had been like taking that first bite of an orange. That first sip of black, black coffee. He listened as though she mattered precisely as much as he did. How disorienting this quality was to encounter in a man.

After all, "justice" was really another word for commerce, something every man at the mercy of it eventually learns.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

the man of my dreams is a girl.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it." PLATO, GORGIAS

Being attractive should have nothing to do with being accepted. It is what is inside a person that matters

I don't get angry. I get even.

He greeted the group by turning to Freeman. "We're trying to cut down on the racial imbalance in this movie," he said with a small smile. Freeman responded in kind. "Spread the ethnicity around," he said. He too was smiling, though his eyes were quite serious.

Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

This is a—a proposal of marriage?" he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. "I suppose so," I said, blushing again. "And, as you see, I'm doing it properly, on my knees." "This would, however, be a partnership of equals you're offering, I imagine?" "Undoubtedly." (448-49)

Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few.

mosquito-netted open windows was an enormous privilege. 'You must not think you are superior to them,' he would say. 'You are just

The idea was that everything personal was political; in fact, henceforth nothing was supposed to be regarded as 'personal' or private.

It was Cixi who championed women's liberation in a culture that had for centuries imposed foot-binding on its female population-a practice to which she put an end.

In the past, a woman could get along without an analytical mind; but not any more. A woman who wanted to be the equal of Westerners and a fine woman wasn't very promising is she had no aptitude for systematic thinking and analysis.

Forms of expression that unnecessarily specify gender are widely regarded as sexist. In technical writing, sexist usage is easy to avoid.

No te parece que una persona con genitales masculinos y femeninos es el símbolo supremo de poder y de belleza?

Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

Women, it seemed, were capable not only of significant acts of treason, but of executing them more deftly than men.

The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The emancipation of women was a project dear to the Prophet's heart, but it was resolutely opposed by many men in the ummah, including some of his closest companions.

people derived their faith in Jesus from the experience of living together in a close-knit, minority community that challenged the unequal distribution of wealth and power