Quotes About Recognition

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

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

Women should be someone and not something.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

I'm sponsored by Reebok and I appreciate everything they've done for me. They do a lot for me on a daily basis and they've actually been great.

I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.

I've not received any major sponsorship deals or anything else.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.

I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.

Cricket is semi-pro for women in Australia, but the girls work damn hard, and it's credit to them to try and grow the sport.

If you are good at something, and especially, if people who matter tell you that you are good enough, you must follow that sport.

I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call me that.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

Fans don't boo nobodies.