Quotes About Equality

The one percent must pay their fair share.

At one time, especially during the era of action heroes, women took a bit of a secondary role because heroes were doing most of the action.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

We're moving away from the one-dimensional nature for women. It used to be that you were known for one thing - a cultural thing, the way you walk, talk or look. Now everybody is allowed to be a layer cake.

It is about time we reprogram the way women think, and I think it is important to push that toward women who need to understand that beauty is not one-sided.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.

I've gone from a place where I was told there was one way and only one way, to being more in a place where I don't think anyone has the right to say what they believe is more important or more significant.

I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.

The only time it gets weird is which bathroom do I go into sometimes.

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'

I'm trying to be what I want to see more of: Black women onscreen.

When I was growing up, there were people of color onscreen, but I never saw interracial couples.

It's really empowering when you see yourself represented in entertainment and, especially, onstage when you're talking about how this country came to be.

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.

I got paid the same as my male counterpart grad students and onward.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.

I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.

We all have an interest in an open Internet.