Inspirational Quotes
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Gender Equality Quotes
Gender EqualityLeadershipLegal HistoryProgress and ChangeWomen in Law When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.
Gender EqualityHistorical PerspectivesReligion and SocietySocial ChangeWomen S Rights The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Gender EqualityGrowthRespectSelf-Improvement My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.
Cultural DifferencesGender EqualitySuccess and Achievement It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
FeminismGender EqualityOppressionSocial JusticeWomen S Rights The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
FeminismGender EqualityHuman RightsSocial ProgressSociety Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
FeminismFilm IndustryGender EqualityGender RepresentationMedia Critique Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
FeminismGender EqualityGender RolesSocial DynamicsSociety I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world.
Breaking BarriersEmpowermentGender EqualityProgressWomen S Rights Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.
Academic ChallengesDiscriminationGender EqualityLegal EducationWomen S Rights The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
ChallengesDiversityGender EqualityRepresentationSocial Issues How hard is it to get female panellists?
DiversityEmpowermentFeminine StrengthGender EqualityRepresentation in Cinema I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way.
Decision MakingEmpowermentEqualityGender EqualityWomen S Rights I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
EmpowermentFeminismGender EqualityPerceptionSociety I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
FeminismGender EqualityHistoryProgressSocial Change Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
DevelopmentEducationEmpowermentGender EqualityPersonal Responsibility The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
Gender EqualityPerseveranceResilienceWomen S Empowerment Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Gender EqualityWorkplace Reform There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
DiscriminationGender EqualityInnovationPerseveranceProgress When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.
BuddhismGender EqualityRespect The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
CommunicationFriendshipGender EqualityPrejudiceSocial Perception I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
Civil RightsGender EqualityGovernment PolicyLegal HistoryWomen in Academia I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
EmpowermentGender EqualityLeadershipLoneliness Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
FreedomGender EqualitySocial JusticeWomen S Rights A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Gender Equality I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
DisenfranchisementFeminismGender EqualityInjusticePride Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
DevelopmentGender EqualityHistoryLeadershipPolitical Ideology The women's movement in Korea is a Juche-oriented movement, which was pioneered by the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and which followed the proud road of development under the leadership of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.