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Quotes About Equality

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.
~ P. D. James
Are women necessary? Not with Ava around
~ Maureen Dowd
President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.
~ Cecile Richards
Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
~ Marianne Williamson
Woman is the masterpiece.
~ Confucius
We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
~ Ken Livingstone
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
~ Lucy Stone
Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.
~ Christophe Lemaitre
I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.
~ Sylvia Lim
Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.
~ Clemence Dane
We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.
~ Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
~ Thomas P.M. Barnett
the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.
~ Susan Faludi
Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.
~ Mary Barnett Gilson
Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
~ Vandana Shiva
While not all men are sexist, all women face the impact of sexism in some way, so the point is there's a massive problem to be solved, and you can be a big part of the solution.
~ Laura Bates
I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.
~ Nora Ephron
There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.
~ Marissa Mayer
Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.
~ Sarah Weddington
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, 'power to the women.
~ Desmond Tutu
Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.
~ Diana Palmer
I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.
~ Planningtorock