Quotes About Progress

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

He slowly smiled. 'Good. We'll start with the basics.' Her mind went blank. 'Basics?' 'Of kissing. Most people aren't good at kissing right from the start.' He looked her over. 'Unless you are a natural.' She blinked stupidly. His hand reached up and touched her cheek, gently tilting her head. 'It's like connecting puzzle pieces when you kiss. Or when you do anything else of a sexual nature.' The parts of her brain not already blank blessedly went dark.

Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

On 27 October 1946 the French constitution was finally changed to include among the basic principles of the Republic the law 'guaranteeing women equal rights to those of men in all spheres', and the national elections a month later in November were the first in which women in France were able to participate.

Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far ...

I seem to be a ship that is sailing out of my own life.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

we miss the opportunity to marvel at our wonders because we have so much set up still to do that what we have done pales into insignificance in relation to what is (always!) yet to be done. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. TODAY is awareness day for what I have accomplished. Celebrations may be in order.

The question for us is how have our experiences affected us and what do we need to do to learn from our experiences, to work through those lessons, integrate them into our being, turn them over, and move on?

The dictionary says progress means moving forward. Herbert Hoover was just a boy in Iowa. Then he lived all over the world helping solve problems. Now he is president of the United States. That is progress. And Iowas is part of progress. So I am part of progress. - Tugs Button

Merci d'avoir fait le premier pas vers nos retrouvailles, car de mon côté, plus les jours passaient et moins j'osais.

And yet what has been learned can be unlearned.

the real revolution for this century "would be to stop seeing the home as a gendered space" but rather as both a male and female domain, just as we now see the workplace.

Real equality for men and women needs a men's movement to sweep away the gender roles that we continue to impose on men even as we struggle to remove them from women.

Now it's up to all of us, women and men alike, to make the next big push toward equality between men and women. We'll have to start by changing how we think.

The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and what they can do. It is time to do the same for men. WHAT

The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time. The former is a dramatic, observable, and well-circumscribed event; the latter a slowly unfolding intrapsychic process.