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Quotes About Equality

After two weeks of paternity leave post-birth, (my husband) goes back to work before tying up loose ends to take ten weeks off to care for his baby. He has a big shiny job at one of the country's most profitable companies, but a dad taking time out, fully paid, to look after his child is recognised as something that's important and so is encouraged.
~ Helen Russell
God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike.
~ Helen Schucman
He casts out, so Jesus calls us to follow suit, to stop restricting our love to our inner circle: "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?"25 He calls us to love the destitute, the hated foreigner, our oppressor, and even our enemy with the same wholehearted love we currently reserve for our closest companions.
~ Helen Schucman
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
~ Helen Thomas
Early on in Carter's presidential bid, I tried to cover a Bible study class that he taught in Plains, Georgia. All of the male reporters were allowed in, but when I tried to enter, a man standing at the door blocked my way and told me ladies were not allowed in. 'I'm no lady, I'm a reporter,' I told him, and he stepped aside for me.
~ Helen Thomas
She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye.
~ Helen Zahavi
we have equal legal rights to spend real time with our families, where there really is equal pay, where the pressures of the long-hours culture are removed, where pay in the caring professions was made so rewarding that it did not invariably fall to women to look after the elderly, the disabled or children in nurseries, nor that teaching in primary schools was a female role.
~ Helena Kennedy
And I'll bet you," I said to Patsy, "that men who've never had any trouble at all saying 'charwoman' or 'cleaningwoman' will find it absolutely impossible to say 'clergywoman'.
~ Helene Hanff
The lines between being assertive or being aggressive, taking charge or being overly ambitious, and being nice or being ineffective are so blurred (by both sexes) that hitting the right note can feel impossible. In
~ Helene Lerner
the internal review at Hewlett-Packard a few years back that showed women within the company applied for open jobs only if they met 100 percent of the criteria listed; men, on the other hand, felt they needed to meet 60 percent of the requirements.3
~ Helene Lerner
We need to change the paradigm of what an effective businesswoman is and allow for expertise and imperfections to be part of the equation. The women I interviewed admitted to both. When we give up perfectionism, we are better able to step up, speak up, think big, and take risks. Yes, we have had to be twice as good as our male counterparts as a result of our late arrival into the workplace. But no one can keep pace with a standard that can never be achieved.
~ Helene Lerner
When you leave your ego at the door and stop trying to be the smartest person in the room, your opinions and ideas will be more appropriately valued and appreciated" (and that's applicable to both genders). He told me that to be heard, women should offer insights regularly rather than only expressing the occasional opinion.
~ Helene Lerner
Women with power and authority tend to intimidate people far more than men with the same qualities, particularly if those women deserve the position they have achieved.
~ Helene Tursten
For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.
~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
~ Heloise Cruse
You know," Baba continues, "Pakistan has a lot of strong, independent, and brilliant women, in history, and today. Groups like the Taliban may be trying to hold them back. But the women will prevail. I know they will.
~ Hena Khan
I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
~ Henri (IV)
All my strength has come back to me. I am no longer wounded or ill. I carry her in my arms. It is difficult work to carry in your arms a being equal to yourself. Strong as you may be, you hardly suffice for it. And what I say as I look at her and see her, I say because I am strong and not because I am weak: "You're everything for me because you are you, and I love all of you."
~ Henri Barbusse
Socially, women are the equals of men, without restrictions. The beings who shine and who bring forth are not made solely to lend or to give the heat of their bodies. It is right that the sum total of work should be shared, reduced and harmonized by their hands. It is just that the fate of humanity should be grounded also in the strength of women.
~ Henri Barbusse
Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!
~ Henri Barbusse
Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.
~ Henrietta Szold
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Liberty, equality bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.
~ Henri-Frdric Amiel
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel