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Quotes About Equality

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!
~ Terry Pratchett
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men
~ Joss Whedon
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
~ Robert Casey
If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
~ Nancy Friday
And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
~ Louise Slaughter
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
~ Zaha Hadid
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
~ Naomi Watts
It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
~ Rebecca De Mornay
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.
~ Halle Berry
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
~ Harri Holkeri
Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.
~ Donna de Varona
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
~ Madame de Stael
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
~ Hillary Clinton
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
~ George Eliot
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
~ Eleanor Clift
When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.
~ Joy Bryant
The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.
~ Lyn St. James
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
~ J. Courtney Sullivan
At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.
~ Ellen Malcolm
A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.
~ Erna Solberg
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
~ Constance Baker Motley
Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
~ Aberjhani