Quotes About Equality

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers and mothers share responsibility.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

Women are much more honourable than men.

Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.