Quotes About Parity

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

Oh, I definitely feel that women are equal to men. No doubt about that.

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

Men and women in their very essence -in their souls if you wish- have natural parity. (...) This was a relatively new idea at the time [of Shakespeare]. It ran counter to the teaching in the Bible -Eve's being made out of Adam's rib to be his helpmate -which was the basis for the idea, held for so long, that women do not have souls of their own but are dependent on their fathers' and husbands' .

What is clear in this sexual/spiritual merging is that women and men can only love each other to this profound depth if there is absolute parity between them. I don't mean in worldly terms: I mean in inner, psychic terms. If there is an inequality of status in the lovers' minds, then true love is not possible.

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.