Quotes about Equality
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
- Kamala Harris
Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
- Bill Bailey
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
- Leymah Gbowee
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Samuel Johnson
Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.
- Bo Burnham
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
- Gloria Steinem
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
- Florence Nightingale
How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?
- Bishop TD Jakes
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
- Madeleine Albright
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
- Gloria Steinem
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
- Desmond Tutu