Women Equality Quotes - Page 2

• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

  Patricia Arquette

  Equality, Rights, America

  Patricia Arquette's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Witty, Women

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• I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Courage, Kings

  Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Women, Equality, Feminist

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  We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother Daughter, Courage, Honesty

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• The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Strong Women, Sex

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  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Country, Strong Women

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Equality, Circus

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.26, Penguin

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• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Witty, Work

  Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

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• When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Bad Ass, Men, Tragedy

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• Equality for women is progress for all.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Progress, Equality Of People

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• All men would be tyrants if they could.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Tyrants, Would Be

  The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

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• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Family, Inspiring, Women

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• If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Equality, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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  I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Witty, Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

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• The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex

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