1. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.-Kofi Annan
2. The only way to solve the problem of women’s subordination is to change people’s mindset and to plant the new idea of gender equality into every mind.-Qingrong Ma
3. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.-Socrates
4. When men are oppressed it’s a tragedy, when women are oppressed it’s a tradition.-Letty Cottin Pogrebin
5. I know of no industrial society where women are the economic equals of men. Of everything that economics measures, women get less.-Ivan Illich
6. Gender equality is not something we should have to fight for, it should have always been.-Robyn Oyeniyi
7. I believe I’ve always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn’t do something because I was a girl.-Anne Hathaway
8. Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.-Bella Abzug
9. I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.-Maureen Reagan
10. One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.-Marlo Thomas
11. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.-Shirley Chisholm
12. It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.-Emma Watson
13. Gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation.-Kofi Annan
14. No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.-Emma Watson
15. Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.-Michelle Bachelet
16. Gender equality is a precondition to overcoming starvation, poverty and epidemics.-Khalid Malik
17. If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?-Mary Astell
18. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.-Marilyn Monroe
19. If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.-Plato
20. A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
21. Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.-Helen Clark
22. I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.-Sacha Guitry
23. A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.-Gloria Steinem
24. A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.-Jill Briscoe
25. And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.-John Steinbeck
26. All through life there were distinctions – toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women – then, at the end, the graves are identical.-Leila Aboulela
27. Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn’t, and that breeds resentment.-Dionne Warwick
28. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.-Shahla Khan
29. How is it women have equality when it comes to taking a hit but the rest of the time they’re just some guy’s property?-Joanna Wylde