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Quotes About Equality

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.
~ Mandy Patinkin
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.
~ Marcia Wallace
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.
~ Marcus Buckingham
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.
~ Margaret Atwood
Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?
~ Margaret Cho
I just think women are funnier than men.
~ Margaret Cho
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
~ Margaret Mead
Women have an important contribution to make.
~ Margaret Mead
We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.
~ Margaret Mead
Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
~ Margaret Sanger
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
~ Margaret Sanger
Women must have economic and social equality with men.
~ Margaret Sanger
She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
~ Margaret Sanger
This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon
~ Maria Sharapova
I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.
~ Maria Teresa Horta