Quotes About Opportunity

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

Women are fully capable of doing everything.