Quotes About Equality

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.

I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

My mother always told me,"hide your face- people are looking at you". I would reply,"It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.