Women Quotes

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

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

~ Michelle Bachelet

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

~ Christine Pelosi

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

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

~ Cherie Blair

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

~ Cherie Blair

The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.

~ Maelle Gavet

We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.

~ Maysoon Zayid

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

~ Carre Otis

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

~ Kofi Annan

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

~ Pim Fortuyn

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

~ Adrienne Mayor

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

~ Patricia Ireland

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

~ Madhuri Dixit

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

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

~ Antonio Munoz Molina

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

~ Antonio Munoz Molina

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

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

~ Connie Chung

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

~ Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

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

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

~ Agnes Macphail

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

~ Elisabeth Moss

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

Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.

~ Io Tillett Wright

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

~ Johanna Siguroardottir

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

~ Maureen Reagan

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

~ Mark Davis

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

~ Anastasia Griffith

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

~ Kathleen Parker

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

~ Alice S. Rossi

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

~ David Wilkerson

'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.

~ Aeriel Miranda

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

~ Naveen Jain

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

~ Jane Seymour

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

~ Billy Graham

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

~ Hugh Hefner