Quotes About Equality

My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

We need to ensure that everyone's got a path to getting a license, so they've got identification.

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

If my son wanted to join the NYPD, I'd want him to have the same pathway to the middle class as I did.

I have no patience for homophobia.

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains. If we've been doing it for that long, those of us who are impatient need to be a little more patient and keep on addressing those things, not ignoring it. White people need to do the same thing. Don't turn a blind eye to it.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.

American patients deserve more access to quality, affordable health care.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

I think every industry is a male-dominated industry. Whether it is Tollywood or Bollywood or India as a whole, it is male-dominated. We stay in India, and it has been patriarchal society.

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.

I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

Changing age old patriarchal mindsets is a difficult long process and involves constant communication and dialogue.

The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult for us - the patriarchy, the racism.