Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

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

We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

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.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

There must be equal opportunities for women. There is no difference between man and woman in their creation, in their humanity, in their pursuit of knowledge, in their understanding, in their intelligence, in their religious piety, in serving God and in serving people.

Yes, I believe in equality. But I don't like the word 'feminist,' because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable.

I believe men and women should be afforded the same opportunities.

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

I support women. I think we should be treated equal, all of that stuff.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

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.

More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.

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