#equal

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#acting #ago #another #because #equals

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior. ↗

— Marilyn French

#feel #inferior #men #must #seem

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#being #complement #equally #first #last

You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one. ↗

— S.B. Redd

#female-stalkers #fiction #intentions #relationships #romance

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. ↗

— Brigid Brophy

#believing #consign #equals #i #insist

There is another Brain Principle to go with ‘First Things First’: that of ‘Last Things Too’. This states that, all other things being equal, you will recall more easily the ‘last’ things. Check your own memory banks and see if this principle holds for the following. You will probably recall: � -The last new person you met � -The last time you saw the person you love the most � -The last social event you attended ↗

— Tony Buzan

#equality

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#thomas-jefferson #equality

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#women #equality

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#feminism #othello #equality

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#equalize #law #mankind #nature #spite