Quotes About Progress

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

Some leaders are born women.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.