Best Gender Inequality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.”

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Book:Love on the Line: How to Recover from Romance Scams Gracefully and Without Victimisation

Source: Love on the Line: How to Recover from Romance Scams Gracefully and Without Victimisation

“Girls’ bodies were inspected, documented, and shared—because the state believed innocence was something it could measure.”

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Book:Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“John never felt the insecurity that underlay the surfaces of most men, and in his mind, he could easily conjure up those male colleagues of hers. In the teachers’ lounge, in their stiff suits with their bow-tied collars, their nicotine-yellowed fingers holding up their pretentious pipes, eyeing Molly as she came in, then snickering when she went out, dismissing her not because she didn’t know enough but because she knew too much, indeed knew far more than they did, and they were cognizant of and frightened by this fact. Hence, the dismissal and, concomitantly, the figurative puffing out of their chests, like those of exotic birds whose impressive plumage hid the scrawny bodies beneath.”

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Book:The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Like most women, I’ve spent far too much time shuffling around this mortal coil looking for non-horror-show toilets. Few of my male counterparts partake of this quest. Instead, with the cheerful insouciance of Labrador puppies, they regard the earth as their urinal.”

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Author:Gina Barreca

“I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. According to the ceremony as there printed, my bridegroom chooses me of his own will and pleasure; but I don’t choose him. Somebody gives me to him, like a she-ass or she-goat, or any other domestic animal.”

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Book:Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“Our Arab mothers and sisters are suffering from injustices like domestic violence, sexual harassment, child marriages and honour killings, some are still fighting for their right to drive or travel without male custody therefore our powerful Arab media was not only expected to broadcast this particular one of a kind Women’s march it should have held panels to dissect the issues being brought forth in order for the Arab world to better understand that gender equality is not an idea that one believes in, it is a planned movement that requires an enormous effort on the part of both men and women to reach.”

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Author:Aysha Taryam

“Being sensual denotes that you have transcended the battle between the masculine and feminine. The masculine and feminine are like kids. They have a tendency to throw tantrums and can get on your nerves. Being sensual is being a mature adult who knows exactly who they are and what they want.”

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Author:Lebo Grand

“Dreams don't come with a gender tag.”

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Author:Anubha Saxena

“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.”

Source: The Mountain of Ignorance

“If you want to learn about patriarchal families, you don't ask the father, you ask the mother; then maybe you will learn something.”

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Book:Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

“I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.”

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Author:Taslima Nasrin

“You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.”

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Author:Daryl Hannah

“Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.”

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Author:Zainab Salbi

“The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.”

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Author:Stephanie Coontz

“We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.”

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Author:Uma Thurman

“I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.”

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Author:Lilly Singh

“The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.”

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Author:Hozier

“I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business. Japan is a very good example of that. You might find cases in the United States where at one level women's equality has progressed tremendously. You don't have the kind of problem of higher women's mortality as you see in South Asia, North Africa, and East Asia, China, too, and yet for American women there are some fields in which equality hasn't yet come.”

“While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as well as the overwhelming burden of sexual violence is disproportionately borne by women.”

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Author:Laura Bates

“The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”

“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 really been addressed.”

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Author:Emma Watson