Julia Gillard Quotes

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

I am glad that we are demonstrating in the United States to-day that the boy should have no more advantage than the girl.

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

An MP is an MP whether male or female.

I'd rather it to just be not so much men's wrestling and women's wrestling but that we're all on the same playing field.

I am not a feminist, I am a humanist.

We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

Gender equality is essential for ensuring that men and women can contribute fully at home, at work, and in public life for the betterment of societies and economies at large.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

I believe in gender equality.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

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