Hillary Clinton Quotes

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

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.

No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

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

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.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

Gender equality is essential for ensuring that men and women can contribute fully at home, at work, and in public life for the betterment of societies and economies at large.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

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.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.