Quotes About Equality

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the Constitution.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

Women are the real architects of society.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

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

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.