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Quotes About Opportunity

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.
~ Billie Jean King
And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
~ Barbara Bush
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
~ Mary Astell
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
~ Bill Vaughan
I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.
~ Sofia Vergara
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
~ Ted Turner
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
~ Michelle Obama
Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.
~ Rick Santorum
I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.
~ Sheridan Smith
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
~ Diane Kruger
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
~ Viola Davis
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
~ Mahnaz Afkhami
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
~ Angela Ruggiero
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
~ Shirley Hufstedler
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
~ Helen Clark
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.
~ Mitra Farahani
If you don't risk anything you risk everything
~ Mark Zuckerberg
This chance will stand before you only once.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.
~ Kellyanne Conway
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
~ Harriet Martineau
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
~ Charles Fourier
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee