Quotes About Change

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.