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Quotes About Equality

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
~ Margaret Atwood
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
~ Golda Meir
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
~ Alice Walker
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
~ Andrea Dworkin
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
~ Gloria Steinem
Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
~ Cher
'Oh yes,' he thinks, 'Women. With their subversive sexual tactics have no place in this game. It is no accident that the queen is the deadliest of pieces; the manly pawn: the weakest.'
~ Unknown
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
~ Sojourner Truth
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
~ May Sarton
I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.
~ George Eliot
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
~ Erica Jong
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
~ Chinese Proverbs
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better than you but I don't think that I'm worse. Women learn to be women, and men learn to be men, and I don't blame it all on you, but I don't want to be you.
~ Ani DiFranco
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice a.. and shake it.
~ Shirley MacLaine
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
~ Unknown
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
~ Martin Luther
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel