Quotes About Progress

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.