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Quotes About Change

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.
~ Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
~ Lady Nancy Astor
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
~ Garry Marshall
At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
~ Myrtle Reed
Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.
~ Frederick Lenz
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
~ Patricia Cornwell
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.
~ Petra Kelly
Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.
~ Richard Simmons
It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.
~ Patricia Arquette
I want to see more women as producers.
~ Octavia Spencer
I want to see more women behind the scenes.
~ Octavia Spencer
Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.
~ Hazel Hawke
I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.
~ David Swanson
I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
~ Dee Dee Myers
The world needs a revolution led by women.
~ Desmond Tutu
The Gospel of transformation is from men and women of earth to men and women of eternities.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
~ Dolly Parton
The forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no longer.
~ Donald Trump
The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.
~ Donna Brazile
There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.
~ Donna Karan
I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.
~ Eleanor Smeal
I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power
~ Elizabeth Lesser