Quotes About Equality

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.

No woman should be shame-faced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.

If I want to be accepted as I am, then I need to be willing to accept others as they are.

This book should be sent to the White House, and to our earnest Attorney General, and to everyone in this country able to read—which may, however, alas, be a most despairing statement. We love—the white Americans, I mean—the notion of the little woman behind the great man: perhaps one day, Louise Meriwether will give us her version of What Every Woman Knows.

Yeah, I thought to myself, like LSD, a black lover is the thing this year. I had seen the white girls in the Village and at off-Broadway theaters clutching their black men tightly while I, manless, looked on with bitterness. I often vowed I would find me an ofay in self-defense, but I could never bring myself to condone the wholesale rape of my slave ancestors by letting a white man touch me.

You white women have always managed to have your cake and eat it, too.

Notre place dans le l'humanité [en tant que femme] ne doit pas être mendiée, mais prise

He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.

He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.

Jews, gypsies, gays. It became normal and acceptable. No one told them what was happening was wrong. In fact, just the opposite.

She recognized the courtesy, but did not want to encourage the view that women were the weaker sex and needed to be protected and coddled. By men. Though as she swayed slightly, fighting the hangover

A populace he saw not as either victim or threat, but as brothers and sisters. Equals, to be respected and protected. And sometimes arrested.

She'd found that most boys, even some not very bright men, understimated women.

It became okay to stop the swaggering, to cease the bullying that was excused as an appropriate way to treat the populace.