Quotes About Equality

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in earthly matters as well.

Leadership desperately needs women.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women.

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America.

I believe in the family. I believe in marriage, and I think it's such a great institution. I think men should be able to marry each other, and women should be able to marry each other.

I married beneath me, all women do.

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.