Quotes About Progress

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

It's vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country's opportunities are open to everyone - big or small, north or south, man or woman.

One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of slavery when black people were reinventing themselves, and as a woman who was the first child in her family born free, she was trying to figure out a way, and she moved from Delta, Louisiana.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.

If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her.

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different countries, yet everywhere the movement has had the same causes, must follow the same main direction, and - sooner or later - must have the same effects.

When I was really little, I wanted to be our first woman president. I always knew I want to be the kind of grownup who makes people's lives better. And since that's pretty much the job of the President of the United States, it seemed like a good idea.

I need to see a woman president in my lifetime. Or the first Jewish president.

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

As the father of five children, with three daughters, I'm pretty fired up to have the first woman president of the United States.

I think it would be incredible for this country if we could have our first woman president.