Women Equality Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Talking, America

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• 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

  Daughter, Nice, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [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

  Father, Equality, Skills

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• If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

  Karen DeCrow

  Political, Looks, Opponents

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• 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

  Strong Women, Military, School

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• 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

  Girl, Guitar, Media

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Fate, Political, Feminism

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

  Jimmy Carter

  Work, Equality, Want

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• Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

  Polly Toynbee

  Women, Mean, Ideas

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• We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Color, Community, Prejudice

  Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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