Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

I'd rather it to just be not so much men's wrestling and women's wrestling but that we're all on the same playing field.

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

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

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

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

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.

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.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

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.

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

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.

I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

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 still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.