Quotes About Equality

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

It feels great to be on the same pedestal as Madhuri Dixit.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.

The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it all around the country, but it comes down to the same thing: this inherent mistrust of authority, and trying to topple people off a pedestal.

People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional sport.

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

Too many women don't see themselves in senior leadership and so don't push themselves to advance their careers as their male peer group do.

You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.

We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.

I'm no less focused than any of my peers. They live a different life. They go home; they are not pictured at events. I train just as much as them, maybe more.

Of course the female experience is different from those of our male peers - just like every woman's story is different from their fellow females.

It's great to go to work and your boss is a black man, one of your peers, you know?

Recognize that the issues we face as women advancing in business are issues my grandmother would have loved to have had. And fight the good fight nonetheless. For yourself and your peers - but also for your daughter, when it's her turn.

There certainly was a time when I started when people looked at me as the secretary to Dr. Buss. Being the boss' daughter amongst your peers, you gotta show up every day.

When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate them from their peers.

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It's something that's very important to me and I think a lot of my peers.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?