gender equality quotes

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

I’ve never been a feminist.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

What we know is that when girls don’t go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they’re more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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.

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

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.