Quotes About Equality

Plath was a feminist, in a broad sense of the term: she never undervalued herself or her work. She insisted that she be recognized as the talented writer she was even while her children were infants and she was spending more time as a mother and a wife than as a writer.

Who says a scorned man can't feel just as much wrath as a scorned woman?

kept the door open long enough to holler after her, "And why can't you hit like a girl?" He stared at her retreating figure and realized that wasn't one of his finer moments.

What the German has done to the Jew in Europe, we are doing to the Jap in the Pacific.

Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.

If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone. What kind of tide can an ocean bestow if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.

Privilege escalation is akin to freedom, and since I've deduced equality to be irrelevant, winning with no debt is what freedom is all about.

Like it doesn't cater to the rich and abandon the poor

I don't think the world works on merit.

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn't work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even longer for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and also regard women as second-class humans. Now is the time for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and hate the Creator's nonhuman creatures.

We had all thought things would be quite different when we first came to France. The words Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, were painted in giant letters over the door of the building we were in.

Men have always gotten to name children after themselves, while not doing any of the work.

Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived.

We can be world-beaters, and run whole companies, and then claim to be traumatized by a hand on our knee when helplessness is politically useful.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

In my understanding, the women's movement is first and foremost about memory. It is about remembering the women who lived, struggled, worked and loved before us, including those who we've never heard about. The women's movement is a sense of continuity in time, knowing that you are part of a river, constantly flowing, changing, expanding. - Elif Shafak

Women are not a problem...they are an answer