Quotes About Equality

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

My men have become women, but the women men.

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.