Quotes About Equality

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it because they will find themselves represented.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.

There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways.

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

The problem in our community is not the women - I mean, they've done all they can do.

You can't ask the women to do anymore. It's time for us as Black men to step up and be what we're supposed to be.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.