Quotes About Opportunity

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

I want to see more women as producers.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

The men and women of America who have been forgotten will never be forgotten again.

Women should have absolute access to capital.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

Why don't more women attain enlightenment?

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.