#ender

If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal? ↗

— Ali Altantawi

#criminal #education #lie #offender #punish

Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. ↗

— James Boswell

#equality #fear #gender #intelligence #men

I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not. ↗

— Shirley Tallman

#gender-equality #sexism #women #women-s-rights #equality

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God? ↗

— Julian of Norwich

#equality #gender #teaching #women #equality

A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a YA heroine ↗

— Celine Kiernan

#ya-heroines #equality

Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#relationship #equality

Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#assault #future-generations #gender-equality #equality

Je ne peux être juste pour les livres qui traitent de la femme en tant que femme... Mon idée c'est que tous, aussi bien hommes que femmes, qui que nous sayons, nous devons être considérés comme d'êtres humaines. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#french #gender-equality #equality

It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives. ↗

— Celine Kiernan

#ya-heroines #equality

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts. ↗

— Celine Kiernan

#ya-heroines #equality