Parity Quotes - Page 2

• the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Sacrifice, Self

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.417, A&C Black

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• A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sex, Idiot, Potty

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.714, Simon and Schuster

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• 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!

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

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• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Rights, Tests

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place and as a result of that the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Choices

  "Full of beans" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Men, Long

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• Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.

  Shelby Steele

  Educational, Home, Skills

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• You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity

  Connie Chung

  Mean, Organization, Diversity

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• With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Majority, Congress

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• It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

  Darren McCarty

  Team, Player, Years

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• This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

  Deborah Copaken

  Crazy, Doe, Hopeless

  "Heroine of the Day: Deborah Copaken Kogan" by Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2013.

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• While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Past, Years

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• Parity is for farmers.

  Seymour Cray

  Farmers

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• What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?

  Charles Bass

  America, United States, Nuclear

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• free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.

  Ilana Mercer

  Groups, Able, Prosperity

  "Apartheid South Africa: Reality vs. libertarian fantasy". praag.org. December 20, 2013.

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• You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

  Chris Christie

  Real, World, Public Sector

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