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Quotes About Equality

If women only knew the extent of their power!
~ Alphonse Karr
If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
~ Doris Day
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
~ Emma Thompson
men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
~ Simin Daneshvar
Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
~ Ani DiFranco
I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.
~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.
~ Faye Wattleton
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
~ Helen Garner
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Women are the architects of society
~ Cher
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
~ Margaret Mitchell
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
~ Betty Friedan
It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.
~ Cathy Guisewite
Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.
~ Mary Robinson
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
~ Mara Brock Akil
As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.
~ Linda Gordon
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
~ Pauline Kael
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
~ Norman Mailer
Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
~ Nancy Astor
Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.
~ Emma Watson
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
~ Frances McDormand