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Quotes About Equality

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.
~ Douglas Wilson
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
~ E. B. White
A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
~ Earl Wilson
I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
~ Eddi Reader
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
~ Edmund Burke
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
~ Edward Abbey
Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Lincoln, the Man of the People
~ Edwin Markham
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.
~ Elizabeth Aston
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
~ Ellen Page
Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.
~ Elton John
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
~ Emma Bonino
We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.
~ Emma Watson
Men don't have the benefits of equality either.
~ Emma Watson
Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
~ Erica Jong
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
~ Ernestine Rose