Quotes About Equality

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they're trying to be a woman in a man's game.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.