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Quotes About Equality

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
~ Margaret Chan
I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.
~ Eric Roberts
Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.
~ Erin Willett
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
~ Frederick Lenz
A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.
~ Frederick Lenz
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
~ Natalie Dormer
Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.
~ Ellen Malcolm
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
~ Minna Antrim
The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.
~ Patricia Arquette
There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!
~ Susan B. Anthony
Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.
~ Frederick Lenz
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
~ Frederick Lenz
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.
~ Frederick Lenz
Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.
~ Frederick Lenz
People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.
~ Octavia Spencer
Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.
~ Frederick Lenz
I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.
~ Fredric Brandt
Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.
~ Vir Das
Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.
~ Frederick Lenz
Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
~ Garry Marshall
Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.
~ Portia de Rossi
You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.
~ Euripides