Quotes About Equality

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are the highest-paid professional women in America.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

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? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing.

I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

In retrospect, it is evident that the emphasis on 'man as enemy' deflected attention away from focus on improving relationships between women and men, ways for men and women to work together to unlearn sexism.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.