Quotes About Change

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

When women gather, great things will happen.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.