Top 100 Women Equality Quotes
#1. I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.
Elizabeth Warren
#2. I think there's a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there's something very realistic in great romance - namely, that women have the right to demand relationships that are based on equality and honesty and trust and, yes, a great sex life.
Sarah MacLean
#3. The tyranny of maternal duty is not new, but it has become considerably more pronounced with the rise of naturalism, and it has thus far produced neither a matriarchy nor sexual equality, but rather a regression in women's status.
Elisabeth Badinter
#4. There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
Ken Livingstone
#5. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.
Hilary Rosen
#6. I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.
Miley Cyrus
#7. I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
Patricia Ireland
#8. Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
Samantha Power
#9. Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
Kathryn Stockett
#10. Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
Fran Lebowitz
#12. There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.
Lee Kuan Yew
#13. Saying of the Prophet
Women
Women are the twin-halves of men.
Idries Shah
#14. Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.
Laura Riding
#15. Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.
An Na
#16. Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
Mike Honda
#17. One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
Michelle Bachelet
#18. If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
Grace Hartigan
#19. Selene's life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women's equality hasn't always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.
Stephanie Dray
#20. If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell
#21. Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#22. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
William Golding
#23. The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.
Carolyn Maloney
#24. Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#25. White women, include women of color in your agenda as you fight for equality. Don't leave us behind and then only call on us when you need our numbers.
Luvvie Ajayi
#26. There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#27. Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#28. Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.
Bella Abzug
#29. To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!
Patricia Arquette
#30. What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.
Criss Jami
#31. For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves.
Christine De Pizan
#32. Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it ...
Terry Pratchett
#33. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary
#34. We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.
George Takei
#35. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)]
Marie Shear
#36. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#37. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Robert Burns
#38. Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.
Arthur Schnitzler
#39. I use "equal worth" rather than equality because the latter term often assumes that men's historical experience - whether economic, political, or sexual - is the standard to which women should aspire.
Estelle B. Freedman
#40. What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
Bell Hooks
#41. More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan
#42. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong ... it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.
Emma Watson
#43. The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
Dalai Lama
#44. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?
Bell Hooks
#45. The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.
William Moulton Marston
#46. The central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
Susan Faludi
#47. The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.
Ellen Key
#48. He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
George Carlin
#49. I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Agnes Macphail
#50. If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
Nancy Friday
#51. I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde
#52. The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.
Julie Zeilinger
#53. When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.
From The Wife Drought
Annabel Crabb
#54. It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges ... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.
Faye J Crosby
#55. Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].
Alysia Reiner
#56. All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.
Leila Aboulela
#57. The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as a gesture of symbolic oppression. It's like saying to the woman, 'Who you are as a person isn't as important as who I am.
Rhoda Janzen
#58. Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
Erica Jong
#59. Men tend to treat women as fragile creatures, but our bodies were built to withstand pain and hard work, think with profound insight. We were created to do what men can't. And if that isn't reason enough for us to be treated equal, I'm not sure what is.
Caroline George
#60. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)
Aung San Suu Kyi
#61. When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.
Sally Kempton
#63. 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.
Sheryl Sandberg
#64. 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.
Joan Jett
#65. The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#66. The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.
Mahnaz Afkhami
#67. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#68. College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both
while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.
Judith Martin
#69. The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.
Susan Faludi
#70. To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.
Amy Schumer
#71. Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.
Katha Pollitt
#72. It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.
Marsha Blackburn
#73. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.
Shahla Khan
#74. We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#75. We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.
Barbara Jordan
#76. I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.
Allan Dare Pearce
#77. Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.
Claude Gueant
#78. Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn't just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.
Helen Clark
#79. It's like what you might call Goldilocks' dilemma in the old fairy tale. Young men see women as "less than" or "better than," but never their equals. And studies indicate that equality is the best foundation for a healthy relationship.
Michael Kimmel
#80. [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.
P.D. James
#81. in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa."
don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. "i do not believe it."
"it's true," sally said defiantly.
"in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?
Douglas Preston
#82. Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.
Diana Palmer
#83. Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy ...
Winifred Holtby
#84. A day will come when a woman will be elected to the top of the pyramid, to be a prime minister or a president, and the whole world will know her and hear about her. She may be sitting here amongst us.
Efrat Israeli
#85. Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
Alice S. Rossi
#86. Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable ... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
Stephen Lewis
#87. Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
Crystal Eastman
#88. The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
Christine De Pizan
#89. Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.
Chelsea Clinton
#90. 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.
Paul Tsongas
#91. There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.
S. Alice Callahan
#92. We fought for equality for all, for women too. For freethinking, fighting the lies of church and state, for what Nat called the Republic of Letters. That was what we believed in twenty years ago. But now, seems like all that has gone. It's church and Sunday best, and votes for men." "What
M.J. Carter
#93. She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her?
Florence Falk
#94. There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.
Hillary Clinton
#95. The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
Gloria Steinem
#96. The Women's March did what it set out to do and that is to show the sheer magnitude of passion that the female voice can project and most importantly, for our future generations, it has shattered the falsity of the patriarch myth that women do not support other women.
Aysha Taryam
#97. All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents ... consequently there should be equality in life's chances.
Julia Gillard
#98. I'm in a band. I don't go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I'm obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.
Hayley Williams
#99. I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#100. Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
Warren Farrell
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