Equality or non-discrimination is a state where every individual gets equal opportunities and rights. The social structure that prevails since long in such a way that girls do not get equal opportunities as men. Gender Equity Index ranks countries on three parameters of gender inequality, those are education, economic participation, and empowerment. Some of the most visible examples of gender inequality and discrimination comes from “Me Too” stories. The gender pay gap has been a pressing issue for many years in the United States, but most discussions miss the factor of race. The principle of equality shall not prevent the maintenance or adoption of measures providing for specific advantages in favour of the under-represented s#x. Below is a collection of women equality quotes for women empowerment.
Women Equality Quotes
- “I am a feminist. I’ve been female for a long time now. I’d be stupid not to be on my own side.”
- “A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.”
- “Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.”
- “When women leaders like me do not feel the inequality, we tend to forget that something is not working.”
- “A society that fails to harness the energy and creativity of its women is at a huge disadvantage in the modern world.”
- “Next time you are about to call a little girl bossy, say instead: She has executive leadership skills.”
- “…gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.”
- “The only way to solve the problem of women’s subordination is to change people’s mindset and to plant the new idea of gender equality into every mind.”
- “Gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation.”
- “Women must learn to play the game as men do.”
- “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
- “I’m pro everyday equality, everyday celebration, and everyday respect. I feel fortunate that we are not back in the days when men were seen as more powerful.”
- “True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity – or political ideology.”
“Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.”
- “Society as whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement, and remuneration based on ability.”
- “The most damaging phrase in the language is it’s always been done that way.”
- “The pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness can become a reality for everyone if we eliminate issues standing in the way of improved race relations. I love this country and we’ve made so much progress, but we’re not there yet.”
- “We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court.”
- “As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.”
- “Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.”
- “Some things just cannot wait. Men must stand up now for women’s equality.”
- “When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.”
- “These men ask for just the same thing: fairness, and fairness only. This is, so far as in my power, they and all others shall have.”
- “Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
- “Before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish.”
- “Women are more sensitive to other women than men are, and that is a huge advantage when it comes to running a business.”
- “To see a woman making 5 dollars a day that was able to put a dollar aside to reinvest in her business was pretty remarkable.”
- “Entrepreneurship offers a special opportunity for women. Entrepreneurship provides women the opportunity to provide for their families without sacrificing their roles and responsibilities. It gives way for flexibility.”
- “A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.”
- “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
- “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
- “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
- “When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s…[bossy].”
- “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
- “I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
- “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
- “I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.”
- “Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.”
- “They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she’s equal to them. But I say to them, ‘How else did you expect me to show up?”
- “If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough.”
- “My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet, is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”
“Who runs the world? Girls.”
- “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.”
- “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men, but over themselves.”
- “Alone, a woman is a root curling for change, But together, women are a forest alive with spirit: a riotous power, the most timeless pact, a call to action, to all those who hear it.”
- “Life is not a competition between men and woman. It is a collaboration.”
- “The only thing required to be a woman is to identify as one. Period. End of story.”
- . “You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.”
- “Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…”
- “There’s no way to tell others they can win but by living your dreams”
- “Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success”
- “Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.”
- “…you will be empowered and you will achieve.”
- “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”
- “Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
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- “To those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, let me say: You are not alone. Your struggle for an end to violence and discrimination is a shared struggle. Any attack on you is an attack on the universal values the United Nations and I have sworn to defend and uphold. Today, I stand with you, and I call upon all countries and people to stand with you, too.”
- “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
- “There are so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.”
- “Indeed, if a woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance […] But this is the woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out, she was locked up, beaten, and flung about the room.”
- “Women s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.”
- “I know of no industrial society where women are the economic equals of men. Of everything that economics measures, women get less.”
- “Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
- “As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.”
“Once made equal to man, a woman becomes his superior.”
- “When men are oppressed it’s a tragedy, when women are oppressed it’s a tradition.”
- “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons…but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
- “Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
- “Find your identity, your true self, and live your mission…Your power is your radical self. Find it.”
- “If you believe in your idea of change and are willing to work hard, sooner or later that dream will be a reality.”
- “An undying spirit is the primary source of help because it is within you.”
- “Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility.”
- “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.”
- “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
- “In the middle east, it is about changing values, such as respect for women.”
- “I am not the woman president of Harvard, I am the president of Harvard.”
- “Hiring and promoting talented women is the right thing to do for society and it is an economic imperative.”
- “When girls are valued less than boys, women less than men, they face multiple risks throughout their lives – at home, at work, at school, from their families, and from strangers. Gender-based violence is a major consequence of gender inequality. It is a worldwide phenomenon.”
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