Quotes About Progress

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

I'm not good at updating gear.

I fought when you couldn't even buy MMA gear at your local sports store or whatever. We had to make it ourselves.

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

Marissa Mayer

Geeks are finally having their day.

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.

We're still stuck in male, female, feminism. I don't believe in, you know... I believe in gender equality.

It shouldn't matter what gender you are but that's where we are right now and it's a battle.

I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything - I've just got to get on with it.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

I never saw gender as a barrier.