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Quotes About Equality

Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, Can you tidy it up a bit back there?
~ Kate Atkinson
An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
~ Kate Atkinson
It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.
~ Kate Atkinson
Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.
~ Kate Atkinson
Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.
~ Kate Atkinson
You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?)
~ Kate Atkinson
It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is.
~ Hillary Clinton
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
~ Holly Near
It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
~ Holly Near
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
~ Holly Near
'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.
~ Huey Long
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
~ Jack Kingston
It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.
~ Jackson Katz
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home
~ James Levine
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
~ Jane Austen
Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.
~ Jenna Elfman
You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
~ Jesse Jackson
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
~ Jessica Savitch
Men are fantastic - as a concept.
~ Jo Brand
Men fear being used; women fear being used up.
~ Jo Coudert
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
~ Joan Collins
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
~ John Burroughs
Peter Norman's a man's man.
~ John Carlos