Quotes About Equality

You think a king worth more than other men? Xau did not, despite my efforts to correct his misconception.

No lady bearing the name of Mrs Darcy will be censured, or slighted, or despised, madam. Certainly not at your instigation. You are not so high you can browbeat me.' I

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Anyway, everybody gets something, and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.

For myself I am certain that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of things which for one man to possess is for the rest to lose, but rather in things which all can possess alike, and where one man's wealth promotes his neighbor's.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weakness.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Why must the power of the female body cancel the power of the female mind? Are we so afraid of having both?

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Does advanced ability deserve the same investment of time, money, and attention as disability?