Quotes About Opportunity

It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.

Women in business, women in employment anywhere face a very different set of challenges than their male counterparts.

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.

Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.

Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.