Quotes About Recognition

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

I know my name will always be linked with women.

My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.

Women have an important contribution to make.

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I'm not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I'm pretty humbled.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

I don't have a clue why I'm famous, either. But I didn't make myself famous. I'm not doing it; you are doing it.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

There's a lot of money to be made by taking women seriously, and letting them know you're taking them seriously.

There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of it, faster than any man will. If you really want to know... It's just the way it is.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?