Quotes About Equality

It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.

Everybody has their cross to bear, and everybody has their issues. But it still never once occurred to me that I'm not as good as everyone else. And that's a gift I wish I could give to every girl.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

If a man can coach a female, why can't a female coach a male? When I was looking for a coach, the gender of the coach never occurred to me. It was about who I thought was good and who I could get along with and listen to.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

You found during apartheid a strange occurrence from the white folks themselves. There were those who did make a choice to speak out and stand and be counted in the army of human beings who believed in justice. And then there are those who left.

When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.

Gender roles are absurd when you actually look at them. The fact that anybody could ever say or think that dressing in women's clothes is wrong, or odd. Women dressing in women's clothes and men dressing in men's clothes is the actually the thing that is really odd.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

I think we have a long way to go in the entertainment industry, particularly in movies, but I feel like in television, there's somebody is finally saying, 'Hey, women have stories to tell, and oddly enough, women want to hear them.'

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

I don't like to take people lightly even if the odds are against them.