Quotes About Equality

I reassured myself as best I could. The minister was a man, but he wore a skirt, so that made him special. There must be others, but were there enough? That was the worry. There were a lot of women, and most of them got married. If they couldn't marry each other, and I didn't think they could, because of having babies, some of them would inevitably have to marry beasts.

You can always tell a good woman by her sandwiches

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

We were patient enough to count the hairs on each other's heads, too impatient to get undressed. Neither of us had the upper hand, we wore matching wounds.

Hox is a racing word: it means to hamstring a horse not so brutally that she can't walk but cleverly so that she can't run. Society hoxes women and pretends that God, Nature or the genepool designed them lame.

I wish to know, said Claire. God help us, muttered Byron. I wish TO KNOW why all that ails mankind must be the fault of womankind? Women are weak, said Byron. Or perhaps men need to believe it is so, I said.

Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros.

Our only hope has always been that the hate-filled old white guys die off and young people are more progressive.

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder.

So, Ryan, back to my Economy model. In motor-vehicle parlance, she's the cloth-seats and plastic-steering-wheel version. But she gets you from A to B. This model comes only in white. My sister-in-law's a lovely black woman from Jamaica and she said to me, she said, Ron! Don't you dare do an Economy black woman. And I love women, I do, and I thought, yeah, show respect. Also, Bridget would knock the shit out of me.

And I thought about women. All these books, and how long had it taken for women to write their share, and why were their still so few women poets and novelists, and even fewer who were considered to be important?

The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education or class. Books were my birthright too.

Biology is destiny if you work for the patriarchy.

Toplum kad?nlar? topal b?rak?r ve onlar? sakat yaratm?? olan sanki Tanr?, DoÄŸa ya da genetik faktörlermiÅŸ gibi davran?r.

you believe that if every person had enough money, enough work, enough leisure, enough learning, that if they were not oppressed by those above them, or fearful of those below them, humankind would be perfected? Byron asked this in his negative drawl

Heterosexual choice is allowed to be the background of a writer's life; its wallpaper. So is maleness. And whiteness. Step out of that and you will be called a feminist writer, a lesbian writer, a gay writer, a woman writer. A black writer. You will never be called a heterosexual writer or a male writer or a white writer. Those signifiers are absorbed into the single word 'writer'.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are. -

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

Whoever is endowed with a power superior to mankind, should also be above the weakness of humanity, without which, that excess of strength would, in effect, only sink him below the most feeble, or what he would actually have been, had he remained their equal.

Aristotle . . . said that men were not at all euqal by nature, since some were born for slavery and others born to be masters. Aristotle was right; but he mistook the effect for the cause . . . if there are slaves by nature, it is only because there has been slavery against nature. Force made the first slaves; and their cowardice perpetuates their slavery.

To decide that the son of a slave is born a slave is to decide that he is not born a man.