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Quotes About Equality

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
~ Anthony Trollope
There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.
~ Charlotte Whitton
Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.
~ Dacia Maraini
I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.
~ Louis C. K.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .
~ Arianna Huffington
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
~ Alice Walker
The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
~ Muhammad Ali
It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.
~ Edna O'Brien
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.
~ Lisa See
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
~ Julie Walters
Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.
~ Robert Jordan
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
~ D. H. Lawrence
My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
~ Jo Brand
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.
~ Gina Torres
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.
~ Jason Segel
I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.
~ Christy Turlington
Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
~ Anita Borg
I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.
~ Anne Desclos
During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.
~ Christine Lagarde
A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.
~ Robert Breault
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
~ Toni Morrison