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Quotes About Equality

Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.
~ Jessica Valenti
Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.
~ Jessica Valenti
The reason men rule is because women let them.
~ Jessica Zafra
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.
~ Jill Abramson
Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.
~ Jill Shalvis
I want women to be the subject, not the object.
~ Jill Soloway
Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.
~ Jill Soloway
We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.
~ Jill Stein
I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.
~ Jillian Hervey
Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
~ Jim Butcher
In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
~ Jim Goad
I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.
~ Jimmy Carter
Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.
~ Jimmy Carter
Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
~ Jo Brand
There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
~ Jo Brand
A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.
~ Joan Cusack
Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.
~ Joan Frank
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
~ Joan Kirner
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
~ Joanna Russ
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
~ Jodie Foster
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
~ John Banville
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
~ John Donne
If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.
~ John F. Kennedy
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
~ John Green