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“We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.”

Men Should Littles Two Matter Moments Doors Modern Equal Men And Women Dresses Treated Pants Icons Modern Society Restroom Wearing A Dress

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.”

Thinking Men Firsts Wells Seems Fighting Race Issues Equal Realms Exploring Men Women Race Issues

Author:Carly Simon

“The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.”

Firsts Persons Moments Waiting Letting Go Equal Forgiving First Person Truce

Author:Claudia Rankine

“You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial.”

“When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.”

Art Would Be Felt Equal Rats Fellowship Crow Alphabet Endowment

Author:Norman Lock

“I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I have become champions for cats. They are so independent and loving and playful and bring such happiness to our lives.”

Years Lasts Our Lives Dog Couple Equal Cat Independent Champion Cat And Dog Opportunist

Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern

“I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.”

People Mean Law Rights Equal Feminist Equal Rights

Author:Ronee Blakley

“Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?”

Want Needs Years Different Party Please Equal Gold Bones Thrown Treatment Oscars Wages Trophies Equal Treatment

Author:Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

“Music is so incredible, the most healing force in the world along with love of course which all things are created and essentially are. I want to make films that can equal the energy experience of music, the experience of a record that sends your soul to heaven; a film can do this. I've seen films get in this area. Hopefully I've made some; I don't know but I want to make them like this, with the power of musical energy,that's one of my soul-goals for I am in awe of this love called music which I participate in everyday.”

“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”

“Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.”

Men Humans Doe Values Girl Human Beings Levels Pay Economic Equal Men And Women Bottom Gender Crucial Replacements Insistence Equal Pay Caregiving Economic Value

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.”

Thinking Country Pay Equal Sweden Equal Pay Iceland

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.”

Stills States America Spiritual Political Wish Rights Equal Excited Establishment Spiritual Life Interiors Equal Rights Rights In America

Author:Patricia Arquette

“Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.”

World Stills Voice Decision Levels Struggle Rights Century Equal Members Property Islam Western Active Granted Engaged 20th Century Equal Rights Western World

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.”

Mother Father Honor Equal Profession Mother And Father Love And Honor Equal Love

Author:O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

“I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women.”

Knows Men Want Wells Mean Political Winning Names Space Walks Numbers He Man Victory Equal Campaigns Furious Delegates Eleanor Great Victory Great Political Political Victory

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.”

Believe I Believe Pay Equal I Believe In Minimum Minimum Wage Equal Pay

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.”

Writing Long Book Country Enough Law Next Rights Equal Presidential Chapters Equal Rights Next Chapter

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.”

People Humans I Can Law Fall Human Beings Rights Imagine Periods Equal Fundamentals Falling In Love Human Rights Jew Instance Orthodox

Author:Susan Jacoby

“Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.”

“I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.”

Poverty Terrible Equal Standards Cruelty Primaries Emphasis Standards Of Living

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal.”

Feels Felt Changed Equal Married Rage Icons Demographics

Author:Sia Furler

“Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen with equal rights and radical improvement in your living situation,' you are creating an illusion which will break one day.”

People Dream Situation Break Rights Becoming Citizens One Day Equal Creating Illusion Improvement Radical Empowering Equal Rights

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.”

Ifs Feels Stills Break Knowing Too Much Equal Gender Relieved

Author:Gemma Cairney

“Saying I want to pay women a fair wage is doing something and saying young black people deserve not to be called super predators but to be engaged from an economic standpoint that gives them an equal opportunity says doing something.I`m tired of talking.”

People Want Giving Young Opportunity Black Pay Talking Economic Equal Deserve Fairs Tired Engaged Black People Standpoint I'm Tired Predator Equal Opportunity

Author:Killer Mike

“It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.”

People Two Together Hours Half Equal Equality Superiority Evident

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.”

Thinking Way Feels Stories Together Laughing Cry Equal Approach Jokes Tools Hopefully Surviving Columns Listen To Me Make You Cry

Author:Sayed Kashua

“I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother. So basically what I'm trying to tell my kids is just, it's their mother's fault and it's not my fault.”

Needs Trying States Kids Lying Mother Order Citizens Fit Equal Faults Israel Accepted Jewish Mother

Author:Sayed Kashua

“A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.”

World Has Beens Equal Missions Changing The World Composer Temperament

Author:Aphex Twin

“You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.”

People Hard Easy Can Do Equal West Following Temperament Brainwashed Following Rules

Author:Aphex Twin

“I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.”

Ifs Knows Play Certain Language Equal Notes Work Out Piano Temperament Chords Keyboards

Author:Aphex Twin

“If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."”

Ifs Brain Accepting Millions Heard Equal Majors Temperament Chords

Author:Aphex Twin

“My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.”

Doe Real Soul Desire Motivation Emotional Equal Video Touching Resonance

Author:Chris Milk

“Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.”

Persons Black Equal Representatives Black Person

Author:Alex Haley

“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.”

“People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.”

People Giving Trying Equal Giving Up Fairs Institutions

Author:Jessica Valenti

“As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.”

Source: Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place

“We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.”

People Trying Desire Equal Envy Esteem Imitation

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.”

Thinking Men Trying States Emotion Worst Honest Honesty Truth Is Equal Protection Innocent Cooks Preserves Think For Yourself Brutally Honest

Author:Whitney Otto

“Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.”

Feels Challenges Differences Knowing Our Lives Alive Progress Equal Bigger Satisfaction Connected Critical Engaged Sanity Engagement Fulfilled Pathways

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

“There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.”

Source: THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH

“[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.”

Fighting Pay Equal Fairs Passages Equal Pay

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.”

“For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.”

Should Christian Principles Rights Equal Atheist Jew Compromise Discussion Citizenship No Compromise

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.”

People Knows Fighting Equal Hearing Sexism Burned Burn Out Burned Out

Author:Rose McGowan

“Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues of our relationships are simply not discussed. The topics are on climate change or any other issues they want us to agree with them on. But they never discuss how we could develop an equal relationship. They should stop using pompous orchestrated summits and begin a serious dialogue with small meetings.”

“After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.”

Kind Tree Equal Roots Drawing Branches Short Time Trunks Combining

Author:Robert Barry

“The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.”

People Hands Opportunity Equal Critics Incredibles Producers Wicked Farmers American History Small Business Clash Equal Opportunity Financiers Louis Brandeis Tomas Jefferson

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“The thing about our cast - and I'm not saying this just to be diplomatic - is that everyone is really fun, and really hardworking, in equal measure. Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Tony [Hale, who plays President Meyer's "bag man," Gary Walsh] are always doing outrageous "bits" in character right before we start scenes, which are hilarious.”

Men Play Character Fun Bits President Scene Equal Casts Bags Outrageous Diplomatic Julia Gary Hardworking Hale

Author:Sarah Sutherland

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