Quotes About Equality

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?

But being a boy is not a social disease.

I love you, I love men and women, I love little children and all innocent things, I love, I feel I am love itself—how could I pick out a woman who would hate me so much!

Don't call humans rats—rats are superior.

It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes:

Henny was one of those women who secretly sympathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

God, what we women have to put up with; and I'm not even allowed to complain.

From Tracey's cheerleaders I learned that in the new political correctness, female solidarity is out. A man in a dress is in. Among women who consider themselves feminists, a man who declares himself a transsexual trumps another woman any day.

one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper." ? Christine de Pizan She was the first woman in France to earn a living by her writing! Born 1364, she advocated for women's equality, wrote poetry, novels, biography, an autobiography, literary, political and religious commentary. She was the widowed mother of three and, perhaps, the first feminist!

por qué los hombres, clérigos y otros, se dedican a insultar a las mujeres?

Yet here stand women not simply accused, but already judged, sentenced and condemned.

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

Toutes les sociétés actuelles, y compris les sociétés "socialistes", reposent, pour l'élevage des enfants et les services domestiques, sur le travail gratuit des femmes

La conséquence logique de la non-valeur de leur travail [aux femmes] est la course au beau mariage.

Le grand danger qui guette la lutte des femmes aujourd'hui est celui-ci : que l'en deça de la question féministe soit présenté et vécu, comme son au-delà, permettant ou visant à permettre, l'économie...de la lutte tout simplement.

La psychanalyse et la sociologie ne prennent pas en compte l'oppression des femmes. Ne la prenant pas en compte, elles la reprennent nécessairement à leur compte : elles l'intègrent comme un donné.

Alors que le salarié dépend du marché (d'un nombre théoriquement illimité d'employeurs), la femme mariée dépend d'un individu. Alors que le salarié vend sa force de travail, la femme mariée la donne : exclusivité et gratuité sont intimement liées.

On peut commencer à préciser la signification de la "gratuité" du travail ménager : c'est un travail qui, non payé, n'est pas non plus rémunéré, parce qu'il est effectué pour autrui.

L'abolition des rapports de production capitaliste en soi ne suffit pas à libérer les femmes ; [il faut] se constituer en force politique autonome.

L'héritage par les enfants ne nécessite, lui, aucune justification. Toute autre dévolution est de surcroît regardée comme "lésant" les enfants, ce qui confirme que ceux-ci sont les héritiers "normaux".