Quotes About Opportunity

If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Cricket is not gender biased. It isn't that men's cricket is different and women's a different one.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.

The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.

Whether it's salary or a promotion or a job, I think it's important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood - the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it's the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.