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Quotes About Equality

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
~ Warren Farrell
Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.
~ Mary Livermore
Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.
~ Phyllis Chesler
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
~ Katha Pollitt
Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.
~ Marissa Mayer
The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.
~ Jon Shenk
It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.
~ Atifete Jahjaga
On the path of truth, all religions are but one, race and color are irrelevant, and there is no difference between men and women.
~ Ostad Elahi
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
~ Michelle Bachelet
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
~ Rosalyn S. Yalow
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
~ Germaine Greer
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
~ Oscar Wilde
We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.
~ Cybill Shepherd
Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.
~ Charlotte Whitton
With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
~ Ralph Kiner
If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.
~ Kang Youwei
I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body
~ Diane von Furstenberg
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
~ Isabel Allende
Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
~ Camille Paglia
The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
~ Audre Lorde