Quotes About Progress

If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.

We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Women make the world go round.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.

It's exciting when there is any growth in women's sport.

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part.

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

The more you win, the brand of women's cricket will go higher.

Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it's the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.

I don't know if I'm a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.