Quotes About Equality

Luckily, I was not born a white man.* *This has never before been said in the history of humanity.

I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.

I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things.

want a guy who is a feminist, someone who knows that all that means is that men and women are equal. A man who admires strong women, like Hillary Clinton or Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But not that really accomplished woman from his office who seems cool and put-together. I don't mean her. I'd like him to resent her irrationally, actually. I mean older, strong women in the theoretical.

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

I think widespread, online displays of female self-confidence are good for people, especially men, to see.

Neither of us gets to be the princess all the time.

Years later I realized that the way I had felt during those first few months was correct. I didn't deserve to be confident yet. I happen to believe that no one inherently deserves anything, except basic human rights, and not to have to watch an ad before you watch a trailer on YouTube. So

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT all white people are racist. And

almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair. I

We have to help our girls and teach them to be confident.' Well, guess what, young girls. You aren't damsels in distress. You aren't hostages to words of your peers. You aren't the victims that even your well-meaning teachers and advocates think you are.

And more importantly, I never have any resentment over uneven distribution of childcare. I just know it's always going to be me. Which is exhausting and terrifying. But also empowering.

I think one of the reasons I loved it is that my image of a big spender is usually an older white male. All the best stereotypes for people showing unexpected generosity are usually reserved for white men: Santa Claus, Bill Gates, God.

There is injustice in this world, yes. But there is no need to add to it.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

I'm in a town where twenty years ago a dyke couldn't buy a dildo but this hadn't ket some mighty queer fucking from going on.

He may bring home the bacon, but he won't be bringing home your bacon.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding ' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

And it struck me that maybe True magazine had been wrong. Maybe there are no New Men. Maybe there are only the living and the dead, and all those who are living deserve each other and are equal to each other.

Except she wasn't like a husband from the 1950s because she didn't bring home the bacon.