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Quotes About Equality

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
~ James Hogg
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
~ James M. Barrie
If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.
~ Janet Campbell Hale
Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
~ Jean Rostand
Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
~ Jessa Crispin
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
~ Jimmy Cannon
I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
~ Joe E. Lewis
She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.
~ John Flanagan
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
~ John Milton
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
~ John Wyndham
Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
~ Joy Browne
The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.
~ Karen Nussbaum
I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. 'Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family.
~ Katie Pavlich
It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.
~ Koko Taylor
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
~ Lara St. John
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.
~ Laura Bates
You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
~ Laurie Anderson
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
~ Learned Hand
And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.
~ Lewis Carroll
Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg