Quotes About Equality

His sister was a lesbian, but that didn't make him decent.

"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine.... "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said.... Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

Love's never a fair trade.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

And the King smiled down upon his little dark wife who could so wholeheartedly admire another woman.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Vous ne pouvez pas le croire, vous les hommes, mais la seule raison pour laquelle les femmes assument ce qui vous convient le plus, c'est que vous les empêchez de découvrir ce qui leur convient à elles. Si elles avaient la liberté, si elles avaient la sagesse de pleinement développer leur force et leur beauté de femmes, elles ne souhaiteraient jamais être des hommes ou semblables à des hommes.

It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.

Mar ni ženska zemlja, luna, hiša? In ni moškega, tudi najve?je barabe, najve?jega ženomrzca in samca, ki ni vsaj enkrat v življenju za?util želje, da bi pokleknil pred žensko. Za ves trud, ki ga opravlja v veliki mreži življenja.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

The mind is not sex-typed.

Women have an important contribution to make.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.