Quotes About Equality

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.

What the women do is become caretakers for the men. In those circumstances, I decided, and many others have, that there's a reality called women's space. There has to be a separate space for women.

Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

What do women want? To be treated like a queen; but by a king, not a pawn.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

I don't have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way that shoving a bit of vacuum hose down your 501s does not make you a man.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.