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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
— John Donne
Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.
— Bill Clinton
We have moral responsibilities to other people in our community because they are people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or lot in life. According to the Christian and Jewish view of humanity, all people have inherent dignity because they are made in the image of God. And thus we should show respect to and concern for those of both genders and all races and nationalities.
— Francis J. Beckwith
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
— Sheryl Sandberg
My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.
— Joyce Banda
I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?
— Sheryl Sandberg
I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?
— Mae West
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
— Gloria Steinem
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
— Frederick Douglass
The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
— Golda Meir
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
— Mahatma Gandhi