Quotes About Equality

Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.

The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

I want women to have all the opportunities that they aspire to.

There is no question that women helping women works for women.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.