Mithali Raj Quotes

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

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

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid history of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we continue on this path.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

An MP is an MP whether male or female.

My house was a place where there was no difference between being a boy or a girl.

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.

Many people say, 'Your dad was so ahead of his time,' and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he's very much for opportunities for all people... To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

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

I've always been told that because of 'Main Hoon Na,' a lot of female filmmakers have come up but I maintain that direction is a 'genderless' job.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

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

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

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.