All Time Famous Gender Equality Quotes

Gender equality advocates for equal rights, opportunities, and treatment regardless of gender. It aims to eliminate discrimination, promote fairness in education, employment, and decision-making, and combat gender-based violence. Achieving this involves challenging stereotypes, empowering women, engaging men, and enacting supportive policies. Gender equality benefits society by unlocking individual potential, fostering inclusive development, and promoting a more just world. It’s a human rights imperative that transcends gender, striving for a balanced and equitable future.

Gender Equality Quotes

1. “Gender equality is not a women’s issue, it’s a human rights issue.”
— Madeleine Albright

2. “Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
— G.D. Anderson

3. “Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.”
— Joss Whedon

4. “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
— Mary Shelley

5. “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

6. “We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.”
— Beyoncé

7. “Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.”
— Michelle Bachelet

8. “Gender equality is not about making women strong. Women are already strong. It is about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
— Kamala Harris

9. “When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.”
— Kofi Annan

10. “Gender equality is not a women’s issue. It’s a human issue. It affects us all.”
— Unknown

11. “The future of our world is only as bright as the future of our girls.”
— Michelle Obama

12. “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
— Cheris Kramarae

13. “Gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation.”
— Kofi Annan

14. “Gender equality is not a ‘female’ issue, it’s a social and economic imperative. It’s a question of human rights and dignity.”
— António Guterres

15. “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
— Gloria Steinem

16. “Equality is not a zero-sum game. It’s about all of us rising together.”
— Michelle Obama

17. “Gender equality is not a destination, it is a journey.”
— Ban Ki-moon

18. “We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men.”
— Emma Watson

19. “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.”
— Helene D. Gayle

20. “Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
— G.D. Anderson

21. “Women’s rights are human rights.”
— Hillary Clinton

22. “The most important thing one woman can do for another is expand her sense of actual possibilities.”
— Adrienne Rich

23. “Gender equality is not a women’s issue, it’s a human issue. It affects us all.”
— Gloria Steinem

24. “It’s important to remember that feminism is not about hating men. It’s about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

25. “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
— Marie Shear

26. “The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi

27. “Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”
— Tom Robbins

28. “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir

29. “Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.”
— Nancy Pelosi

30. “I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.”
— Malala Yousafzai