Quotes About Opportunity

I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

I'd like to think that the door is always open for just the best actor for the role, you know? Race or gender shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless the character or story is focused on that for some particular reason.

Gender is not central to coding.

Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.

On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

I never saw gender as a barrier.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

I have disregarded gender when deciding which part to audition for.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.

It's not a gender thing. You can pick anyone off the street and it depends on his or her own character how they can drive a car.

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don't ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

I want racial and gender equality.

It is not easy to be a filmmaker but it has nothing to do with my gender.

And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

The black community is broken up in general.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.