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Quotes About Opportunity

When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and talent of all your people - men and women.
~ Thomas Friedman
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
~ Tom Colicchio
I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.
~ Valerie Jarrett
I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.
~ Viola Davis
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
~ Warren Farrell
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
~ Warren Farrell
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
~ Weili Dai
In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
~ Weili Dai
The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.
~ Willard Scott
So women just seized the opportunity.
~ Zhang Xi
Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.
~ First Lady Michelle Obama
If women are given the same honor and dignity in society as the men, they will run the society way better than men.
~ Abhijit Naskar
It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.
~ Germany Kent
Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.
~ A.D. Posey
Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.
~ A.D. Posey
On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!
~ Widad Akreyi
The best way to transform a society is to empower the women of that society.
~ Debasish Mridha
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.
~ Tapan Singhel