Quotes About Opportunity

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity to do so. So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.