Equality Quotes

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women were coming into their own, seeking opportunities in business and careers. Billie Jean was in the forefront of sports and tennis changes, always fighting for equality. - Rosie Casals

Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels! - Kathy Lette

Women have confused equality with independence. Equality is a very good and desirable thing [compared with] independence, which is often rather notional and theoretical. - Michael Buerk

Women are a great source of strength in creating human civilization... The promotion of gender equality and protection of women's rights impact on the immediate interests of women and decide whether human beings can fully develop their potential and pursue a better life. - Hu Jintao

Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth. - Marquis De Sade

Wives are surely sensitive to imbalances in routine tasks and efforts, as almost all research shows. However, we find that they are more concerned with their husband's investments in the emotional content of the marriage. We interpret our results to suggest that partners need to pay more attention to how their partners feel about their relationship and about marriage generally because equality does not necessarily produce equity. - Steven Nock

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on. - Barack Obama

Wisconsin has historically done great things because we felt we were all in it together. But our economic growth is becoming more and more concentrated on our wealthiest families. Wisconsin's legacy of equality is in serious trouble when we lose this feeling. - Joel Rogers