Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Macphail

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Charles Caleb Colton

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Evan Wolfson

We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex couples.

John Key

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We want the Persian Gulf to be a gulf of friendship and equality,

Charlotte Bunch

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Ulysses Grant

The people who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to equality with the people who had rebelled, the more reconciled they would

Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

Camille Paglia

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

bell hooks

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

William Shakespeare

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

Dalai Lama

For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

Dolly Parton

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Amelia Earhart

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Claudia Black

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

Courtney Love

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

Anais Nin

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

Rachel Maddow

For the same work, dudes get paid more

Jeff Rich

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Gloria Steinem

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Christopher Dodd

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Mao Zedong

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Karen Morley

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work

Lily Tomlin

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.