Quotes About Equality

You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

I've got no tolerance for a man who hurts women. Every man on this planet owes his life to a woman. I hope they catch the bastard and hang him by his nuts.

I'm marrying you, not your uterus.

I've spent my entire adult life working and climbing side-by-side with men, so trust me when I say that most male stupidity is a result of one of two things. It's either their egos, or it's that junk in their pants.

his father had taught him when he was still a boy that men should always show respect for women because women carried inside them the place where life began.

But I should be the one to check! It's my house, and you shouldn't have to do it just because you're the man." He cast her a withering glance that was probably lost in the darkness. "Burn a bra if you want, but don't be ridiculous!" "Reece!" "What?" "Be careful!

She wanted a husband who cherished her and whom she cherished in return, a man who, like her father, would value her opinions more than her obedience, who would see her as more than a helpmeet and the mother of his children, who would truly see her.

His mother had drummed it into him and his brothers not to treat women like disposable goods. Hell, he had every bit as much sexual drive as the next man. He just had more self-control. Getting

Dizer Bonjour é reconhecera humanidade da outra pessoa. É sinalizar que você a vê como pessoa, não como alguém que tem que servir você.

She wanted to be loved. But she deserved a relationship based on honesty, respect and consideration. Mazy was no longer willing to accept any romance that was not a pairing of equals.

Some kids prefer to engage with characters who are dealing with, say, bullying, gender identity, and racism outside the confines of the all-too-real world readers themselves live in.

We're stuck on this image of gay women as masculine and gay men as feminine, and we refuse to recognize that they look just like you and me. The black community is going to have to recognize that condemning these guys because they're gay is wrong.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status such friendship will never give you happiness.

And it sees ressentiment as the defining feature of a world where mimetic desire, or what Herzl called, approvingly, 'Darwinian mimicry', endlessly proliferates, and where the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

How could, it was felt, people be so opposed to modernity, and all the many goods it had to offer to people around the world: equality, liberty, prosperity, toleration, pluralism and representative government.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Girl-shaming as a sport and industry needs to be over.

These extraordinary measures were not about me being treated the same as other people; they were about me being treated worse.

As a white, male American who has always been well-off—the kind of person for whom this nation has always worked best—the gift of full citizenship, unquestioned and unchallenged, came to me as an accident of birth. Today I realize the magnitude of that gift. But for years I was an unconscious and ungrateful recipient because attaining citizenship required no effort from me.

By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life.

American democracy at its best is like that island of restored prairie. In a world where human diversity is often suppressed—where authoritarian regimes have kept people lined up like rows of cultivated corn, harvesting their labor and sometimes their lives to protect the interests of the state—the diversity that grows in a democracy delights the heart as well as the eye.

Experiments show that even three-year-olds have the intuition that rewards should be proportional to contributions, in places as different as Japanese cities and the camps of Turkana nomads in Kenya. Obviously, it does happen that people take more than their share-but that is universally considered exploitative, and people are eager to avoid or shun individuals who do that.

We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.