je n’ai rien à dire à celui-là qui se proclame mon égal avec hargne et ne veut ni dépendre de moi en quelque chose ni que je dépende de lui. Je n’aime que celui-là dont...

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal,...

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and...

I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror...

She’d been taught that pants were inappropriate for girls because they were immodest […] If women’s pants were suggestive, men’s were equally so, and they revealed a great deal more of what was underneath them....

Christian equality can be described as equity, or even-handedness. Egalitarianism, in contrast, demands sameness, or equality of outcome. These two visions of equality are about as comparable as dry and wet. Think of it in...

It’s not equality that counts, it’s reprocity that counts. Love is not like a balance sheet. There’s no such thing as double-entry accounting when it comes to love.

All men are equal before fish.

America operates under the notion of equality before the law. Basic fairness is an article of faith. We may not agree on everything all of the time, but we select our leaders together. And when...

In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words-liberty, equality, and fraternity-do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper; outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a...

A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own...

Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly...

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is...

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her...

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”. – (Act...

As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men...

In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of “the common people,” who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined...

Dating in highschool was very different. Boys suddenly went up your shirt, girls were expected to give blow jobs and be sexy. You had to be hot, but not a slut. You had to be...

How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?

Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition....

Change is possible through dialogue and unity. We must be ever vigilantto uncover the historical roots of the conflicts that divide us,ever vigilant to speak the truth to power. And it is to historythat we...

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

We ought to be free to meet and mingle, –to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed...

untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who...

I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing...

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Prosperity or egalitarianism / you have to choose. I favor freedom / you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I...

Health makes good propaganda.

The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they...

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to...

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

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.

In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not “just like everyone else.” To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are...

Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative...

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you’re always protecting me… I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an...

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights

For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners...

Listen, everyone, you all have your own circumstances. Some of you come from rich families,and some poor. But your value isn’t determined by such things–by things beyond your control. Each one of you must discover...