Quotes About Equality

I noticed that, on 'Spooks,' there were a lot of women behind the camera and in different departments.

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.

There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.

Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

I'm so tired of this notion that women only need to support women. Why can't we all support each other?

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism that has made forty-two-year-old women so desirable.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

Mental health is not a novelty; it's part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were a broken arm or any other kind of medical consideration.

It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.

I believe homosexuality is very common these days. Nowadays, gay communities are asking for their rights, asking to abolish Article 377. Every religion has homosexuals and lesbians.

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

Nowadays, women are looked at as equal to the men when it comes to competing, and I think that's a really cool message to send to little girls and show them that whatever they want to do, they can set their mind to it and make it happen.

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

At the end of the day, life and the way things are nowadays, you have to mentally prepare your kids. Whether I'm with a woman or not, walking down the street with my son, he's going to see a man and a man holding hands, so eventually I have to give him that conversation.

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

I would really love to win one of the men's championships and throw a complete curve ball, like, out of nowhere.