Quotes About Equality

It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

Women and men basically want the same things. Trust. Respect. Support. Love. Room to grow and a major physical attraction.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Men don't hear women.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.