"I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling."

Equality, Decision, Choice, Man

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"I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling."

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"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

Equality, Race, Judgment, Difference

"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Equality, Justice, Pride, Ego

"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Equality, Humanity, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Equality, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

"Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Equality, Power, Truth, Future, Inspirational

"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Equality, Education, People, Policy, Concern

"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, American Novelist

Equality, Women, Cause, Rights

"Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Equality, Women, Feminism, Truth, History

"Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian Writer

Equality, Gender, Education, Truth

"If a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithful to him, to save him from his own lust. But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of soul,body and pride of man?"

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Equality, Lust, Gender, Truth

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"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."

Mother, Lady, Girls, Growing up

"The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control."

Control, Abortion, Privacy, Right

"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me."

Legal, Career, Support

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."

Mother, Lady

"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself."

Power, Freedom, Obvious, Office

"Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."

Time, Thought, Growth, Concern

"Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise."

Change, Women, Policy, Abortion

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"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."

"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

"Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom."

"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

"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."

"Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric."

"Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever."

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"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."

"The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control."

"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me."

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."

"It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation."

"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."

"Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?"

"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself."

"Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."