Quotes About Equality

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

I think we women underrate ourselves when it comes to our courage and strength.

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

Men and women are not equal.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.