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Quotes About Equality

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.
~ Hugh Hefner
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.
~ Jane Roberts
I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.
~ Lauren Holiday
Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
~ Muhammad Ali
Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.
~ Brad Stine
I'm happy to be working with all women.
~ Sara Bareilles
I really want to help write women back into history.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
~ Erica Jong
I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.
~ Dalia Mogahed
Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.
~ Gloria Allred
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Women are not the problem they're the solution
~ Sheryl WuDunn
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
~ Michael M. Honda
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
~ Christina, Queen of Sweden
on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.
~ Marsha Norman
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
~ Chief Joseph
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
~ Thomas Hardy
I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.
~ Jean Sasson
The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
~ Jean Kerr
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
~ Anton Chekhov