Quotes About Equality

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Black Lives Matter, was founded by three women;

Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.

But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes and try to conjure up the image of a president or – to move into the knowledge economy – a professor, what most of us see is not a woman.

first recorded example of a man telling a woman to 'shut up';

What I have in mind is the ability to be effective, to make a difference in the world, and the right to be taken seriously, together as much as individually. It is power in that sense that many women feel they don't have – and that they want.

In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don't want to hear the women speak).

Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem.

it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it.

Si no percibimos que las mujeres están totalmente dentro de las estructuras de poder, entonces lo que tenemos que redefinir es el poder, no a las mujeres.

But all tactics of that type tend to leave women still feeling on the outside, impersonators of rhetorical roles that they don't feel they own. Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem.

For a start it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it. And that matches the detail of the threats themselves

Although we read of occasional Romans, usually the 'bad' ones in these stories, complaining that foreigners or the low-born are taking away their birthright, the overall message is unmistakeable: even at the very pinnacle of the Roman political order, 'Romans' could come from elsewhere; and those born low, even ex-slaves, could rise to the top.

defend women's right to be wrong, at least occasionally.

Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino

Es habitual pensar que las mujeres que ocupan cargos de poder están derribando barreras o apoderándose de algo a lo que no tienen derecho.

No es fácil hacer encajar a las mujeres en una estructura que, de entrada, está codificada como masculina: lo que hay que hacer es cambiar la estructura.

I produced offspring. I sought to equal the deeds of my father. I won the praise of my ancestors so that they are glad that I was born to them.

To put this the other way round, we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.

To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

The cash that comes from selling your labour is vulgar and unacceptable for a gentleman … for wages are effectively the bonds of slavery.