Quotes About Inclusion

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

I really want to help write women back into history.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.