Quotes About Progress

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all." Dave Barry

the last decade can be regarded as "the lost decade" because no improvements in flight safety matters have been made in that period.

Kellerman revealed herself slowly. She first threw the diablo (a form of juggling)

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Always ask the turtle.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." 

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Feminism is memory.

People now ask me if I'm passing the torch. I always explain that no, I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much. And I'm using it to light the torches of others. Because the truth is that the old image of one person with a torch is part of the problem, not the solution. We each need a torch if we are to see where we're going. And together, we create so much more light.

How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?

In many languages, even the word for human being is "one who goes on migrations." Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

We're also learning that the most dangerous time often comes after a victory.

IF EVERYONE HAS A full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven't been.