Quotes About Opportunity

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Life was meant to be lived.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any?

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.

The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.