Quotes About Equality

There is no norm that a woman must write a certain kind of script.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

It's so easy to make an Asian person the doctor, the lawyer, the smart kid in school. What's harder is challenging the norm and hiring Asian actors to play your Average Joe.

We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

Although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal.

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

We're trying to humanize the trans community. It's about showing us as normal, everyday human beings who just happen to be trans.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?

I am a normal girl.

I feel that I am leading a very normal life, where I am just another working woman like anyone else.

I want my children to have a normal life and not face racism and their children's children.

It's important that people can be themselves and live a normal life that's not defined by a disability.

If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

I'm just a normal person made of flesh and blood like anybody.

I'm a normal woman, a normal person, and I just want to drive.

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.

I don't want to be stuck up. I'm just a normal person. My friends think of me as a normal friend, and I like that.