Quotes About Equality

Women hold up half the sky.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Men and women, women and men, It will never work.

Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.

That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.

If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

I believe in the single standard for men and women.

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

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

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

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

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.