Quotes about Equality

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life--a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality-- then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?

The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!

We are so different, yet so much the same.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I'm "passing the torch." I explain that I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much—and I'm using it to light the torches of others.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

I was the only "girl writer," probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.