Women Equality Quotes

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial.

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.