Quotes About Progress

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.