Quotes About Progress

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.