Quotes About Equality

Women's role in the household has changed since the women's movement. I don't know if women's role outside the household has changed. I mean, are more women mowing lawns and fixing shingles and doing electrical work and plumbing?

We have to nurture and support the idea of pluralism.

I think it's just that the fashion industry can only accept one thing at a time. It's like, 'OK, well, if we're going to add plus, then let's keep it hourglass and white.'

I was definitely one of those girls where my father would sit me at the dinner table and say, 'What's two plus two?' And I'd be like, 'Five!' He would shake his head. Math and science intimidated me.

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'

Fat is fat. This goes back to the word 'plus.' We describe things. We are humans, and we need to describe things.

Casting plus size girls needs to be genuine.

How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.

We need to stop shortchanging our families and future in order to line the pockets of millionaires and special interests.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

I certainly don't think we're past the point in history where a woman's physical appearance may play some part in job availability or job acquisition.

I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.

California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

If you make 'PKP' from the girl's point of view, it would have been the other way round. The boys would have been wrong for the girls. That wouldn't have been misogynistic.

There are definitely challenges that come with being the only woman in any room, and on a show like 'The Breakfast Club,' with strong opinions, it can be hard to get the guys to see things from my point of view.

I think it's important that the lived experiences and the point of view of L.G.B.T. folks be included in conversations that affect all of us.

I wrote my first play when I was nine, it was about Robin Hood, from Maid Marian's point of view. I was a feminist from day one.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm.