Quotes About Equality

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

I am always on the women's side.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here.

As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.