Quotes about Equality

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

Tell me, Elly Kleinman, why do men feel threatened by women?

That way nobody feels exploited." "Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?" "I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.

I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies. A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

They say: Speak for us (to whom?) Some say: Avenge us (on whom?) Some say: Take our place. Some say: Witness Others say (and these are women) Be happy for us.

xxx all souls are equal in heaven. Only in heaven, I thought. And this is not heaven. This is a place for snakes and ladders, and though I was once high up on a ladder propped up against the Tree of Life, now I've slid down a snake. How gratifying for the others to witness my fall!

Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman

Then she lent me her red flannel petticoat until I should get one of my own, and showed me how to fold and pin the cloths, and said hat some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.