Quotes About Equality

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.

I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.