Quotes About Equality

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

We ask to be recognized as men.

At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.