Estelle R. Ramey Quotes

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

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

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

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

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

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

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

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.

… few are the men who both appreciate women and genuinely care about their rights.

...when I am told that my ploughmen are capable citizens, it seems to me ridiculous to say that educated women are not just as capable.

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

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.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.