Quotes About Equality

My bride is here ... because my equal is here, and my likeness.

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Women are all vulnerable, and each of us is only as secure as those women that society puts on the "bottom," not as powerful as the token top.

The idea of just adding women to things as they are is not nearly as likely to excite people as the idea that society as a whole could be different. To believe that the degradation of sexism and racism, the violence in our lives that we have today is not inevitable moves people to action.

Heterosexual privilege is the method by which women are given a stake in male supremacy--and ... it is therefore the method by which women are given a stake in their own oppression.

The initial tenets of feminism have already been established--the idea that power is based on gender differences and that men's illegitimate power over women taints all aspects of society, for instance. But now we face the arduous task of systematically working through these ideas, fleshing them out and discovering new ones.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.

It is not true love when one seeks to change another person" "Fallen Angel.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

Many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.

You see," said Margaret kindly, "we all know that men have more power than women, and I suppose the time has come for Norman to pass beyond you. He would not be cleverer than any one, if he could not do more than a girl at home.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

Its time we woke up," pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. "Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who's to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what's more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

A lifted world lifts women up," the Socalist explained. You cannot lift the world at all While half of it is kept so small," the Suffragist maintained. The world awoke, and tartly spoke: Your work is all the same; Work together or work apart, Work, each of you, with all your heart- Just get into the game!

They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.

I am, unfortunately, one of those much-berated New England women who have learned to think as well as feel; and to me, at least, marriage means more than a union of hearts and bodies--it must mean minds, too.

We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women—why, they would be no obstacles at all. Jeff, with his gentle romantic old-fashioned notions of women as clinging vines. Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women—those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation. The latter as a large class, but negligible—he had never thought about them at all.

Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body

They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs. MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em—nor God—nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?" (from According to Solomon)

We thought of them as "Women," and therefore timid; but it was two thousand years since they had had anything to be afraid of, and certainly more than one thousand since they had outgrown the feeling.

it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body requires use of all of our powers in four areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual and social