Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

This is the first generation where, to any extent, men and women are working together as equals.

We [women] seek equality. We don't seek sameness.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

Feminism means, basically, are you in favor of equal opportunities for men and women? It's hard to argue with that.

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

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

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

Equality for women is progress for all.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

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 believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.