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Gender equality is built on the notion that we’re all people

• I’m just a person trapped inside a woman’s body. Elaine Boosler
• Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings. Cheris Kramarae
• Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. Gloria Naylor
• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him. Sophia Loren
• Fairness,  Equality,  The battle of the sexes,  Democracy,  Opportunity,  Power,  Justice

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Gender equality is about fairness and equal treatment

• Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie. Gloria Steinem
• A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. Gloria Steinem
• I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. Agnes Macphail
• Fairness,  Justice

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Gender equality is about equal rights

• It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less Susan B. Anthony
• Women’s empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights. Mahnaz Afkhami
• Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. Toni Morrison
• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• The battle for women’s rights has been largely won. Margaret Thatcher
• The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress. Charles Fourier
• Women have a lot to say about how to advance women’s rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. Charlotte Bunch

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Gender equality is about equal opportunities for leadership

• I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there. Maureen Reagan
• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. Patricia Ireland
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Gender equality is about the recognition than men and women having equal capabilities

• 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 success is assured only in a circus. John Steinbeck
• I believe I’ve always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn’t do something because I was a girl. Anne Hathaway
• Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse. Golda Meir
• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary
• Talent,  Skill

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Gender equality is about equal job opportunities and promotion

• There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.  Florynce Kennedy
• The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor.  Wilma Scott Heide
• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug
• Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. Bella Abzug
• To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. Golda Meir
• If a woman is judged to have performed poorly in her job, her whole sex tends to share the blame. You don’t hear people saying, Joe Bloggs really screwed up that job, we better not hire any more men. Anne Summers
• A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. Fannie Hurst

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Gender equality is about equal pay

• Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. Michael M. Honda
• We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn’t mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you’re doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way. Charlize Theron
• When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait that long. Lya Sorano
• We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest. Lucy Stone

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Gender equality is about equal responsibilities and duties in the family and home

• Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. Betty Friedan
• A man’s home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor. Lucille Kallen
• Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other? Angelina Grimke

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Gender equality is about women no longer being prepared to be a doormat

• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. Rebecca West

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Gender equality for women does not mean being anti-men

• You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. Jane Galvin Lewis
• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. Margaret Mead
• Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. Betty Friedan
• Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.  Fay Weldon

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Gender equality does not mean we can’t appreciate the differences between men and women

• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. John Ruskin
• We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same. Eva Burrows
• Diversity,  Uniqueness

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Gender equality requires a mental and behavioural shift from men

• Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality Thomas Jefferson
• Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior, or they are inferior Marilyn French
• I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. Jim Butcher
• The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. Simone de Beauvoir
• A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. Anna Howard Shaw
• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen

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Gender equality requires a mental shift and behavioural shift from women

• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. Marlo Thomas
• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. Lois Wyse
• Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over. Bella Abzug
• Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type Fran Lebowitz

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Gender equality requires women uniting with women

• There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. Madeleine Albright
• Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us. Christabel Pankhurst
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Gender equality requires social transformation

• Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. Mao Zedong

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Gender equality requires self-empowerment

• I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft

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Gender equality requires economic empowerment and independence

• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. Crystal Eastman

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Gender equality requires less gender stereotyping

• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl. Shirley Chisholm
• 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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More requirements

• Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women’s’ point of view. Jenny Shipley

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Equality for women brings progress for society

• It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. Herbert Spencer
• 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. Kofi Annan
• Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. Mao Zedong
• Never, till woman stands side by side with man, his equal in the eye of the law as well as the Creator, will the high destiny of the race be accomplished. L. Sholes

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What being a liberated woman means …

• I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. Madonna
• Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Gloria Steinhem
• For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious–or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. Naomi Wolf
• I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. Alanis Morissette
• I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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… including in the bedroom

• A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. Gloria Steinem
• To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex. Lily Tomlin
• It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. Richard J. Ferris
• And why is it that some men just can’t deal with the idea that a smart, together, professional woman like me can actually deserve their respect and still want to be thrown down on the couch and pounded like a cheap steak now and then? Jules Carlysle
• Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be. Betty Rollin

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The challenges of being a modern woman

• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.  Clare Boothe Luce
• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well- dressed, well- groomed, and unaggressive. Marya Mannes
• As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. Virginia Woolf

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• On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. L. Mencken
• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary
• In high school I wanted to be a feminist, but my boyfriend wouldn’t let me. Denise Munro
• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. Camille Paglia
• So you’re a feminist. Isn’t that cute?
• I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. Maureen Reagan
• One thing in which the sexes are equal is in thinking that they’re not. Franklin Jones
• There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Albert Ellis
• Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

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