Gender Equality Quotes
60 Gender Equality quotes by 36 unique authors
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The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by…
— Anne Fortier
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Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy,…
— Helen Clark
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Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the…
— Johanna Siguroardottir
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a…
— Angela Davis
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Gender equality must become a lived reality
— Michelle Bachelet
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Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't…
— Emma Watson
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People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all -…
— Emma Watson
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Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.
— Emma Watson
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Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a…
— Emma Watson
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to…
— Ed Miliband
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We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce,…
— Beyonce Knowles
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Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
— Helen Clark
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Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty…
— Hilary Rosen
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The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.
— Michelle Bachelet
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U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming…
— Michelle Bachelet
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If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can…
— Johnnetta B. Cole
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The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in…
— Daryl Hannah
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Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking:…
— Jenny Hval
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
— Farrah Fawcett
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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
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
— Coco Chanel
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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…
— John Steinbeck
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In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
— Tarja Halonen
Who Wrote These Gender Equality Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 60 Gender Equality Quotes, led by these top contributors: