Quotes About Opportunity

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society

Never miss an opportunity to look like a nice guy.

Male crews know that women cinematographers are here to stay, and there will be more of us. If they're professionals, they behave as such.

If you empower women, you can change the world.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.

Economic opportunities will win the women's vote.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.