Quotes About Equality

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice-- You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Bien heureusement, pensait Elizabeth, personne ne devait s'en apercevoir. Car, à beaucoup de sensibilité Jane unissait une égalité d'humeur et une maîtrise d'elle-même qui la préservait des curiosités indiscrètes.

Dare not say that men forget sooner than women, that his love has an earlier death. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

What a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants!

Men have had every advantage of us is telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.

If you are content to be simply yourself and do not compare or compete, everyone will respect you

he is gentleman and i am agentleman's daughter.so far we are equal

He is a gentleman and i am a gentleman's daughter. so far we are equal.

One man's way may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

mas, sabe, nem todos nascemos com os mesmos poderes... os mesmos modos...

Die eine Hälfte der Menschheit hat für das Vergnügen der anderen Hälfte kein Verständnis.

He is a gentlemen. I am a gentleman's daughter. So far, we are equal.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it.

And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals." (10)

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people live fuller lives.

It's—I'm sorry, Eliza—it's the way you make a fool of yourself now. He says that you have crumbled. Nobody now would dream you had been to a university. Your prudence did not develop. Say what you like about equality of mind, prudence is usually a male attribute, especially in the Civil Service where of course there are still very few women, as we know. Making judgments is a female failing, justified by the dangerous word 'instinct.