logo

Quotes About Equality

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.
~ Geena Davis
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
~ Michelle Bachelet
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
~ Warren Farrell
Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
~ William Lyon Phelps
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.
~ Nelson Mandela
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?
~ Laurent Blanc
There are not many roles where women are really active.
~ Kathleen Quinlan
In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any?
~ Helen Wills
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
~ Jane Fonda
There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
~ Alix Kates Shulman
Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.
~ Rashida Jones
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
~ Sally Ride
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
~ Sonia Johnson
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
~ Michelle Bachelet
society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.
~ Shirley Williams
Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
~ Amber Valletta
Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.
~ Amy Pascal
I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
~ Patricia Briggs, Moon Called