Johannes Rau Quotes

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the housewife.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

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

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.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

Women must enjoy equal rights with men. The remaining shackles that hamper their freedom must be removed so that they can participate constructively and profoundly in shaping the life of the country.

Perhaps the major challenge during my time in office was getting employers to understand how much more needed to be done to give women their fair share of employment opportunities.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, ... home economics than financial economics.

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

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

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

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

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

Under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed … firstly because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly—and this is the main thing—they remain in ‘household bondage’; they continue to be ‘household slaves’, for they are overburdened with the drudgery if the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen in the family household.

… no civilization can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

Every woman, whether or not they're comfortable with the term 'feminist,' probably wants to be equal to men, and that is fundamentally what feminism is about.

When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.

We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.