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Quotes About Progress

Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
~ Helen Fisher
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
~ Madeleine Albright
Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.
~ Ita Buttrose
Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.
~ Julie Foudy
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
~ George Carey
Equality for women is progress for all.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Let's just put it this way: if you think there's a thing – anything – women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.
~ Kameron Hurley
Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
~ Melinda Gates
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
~ Pam Grier
The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.
~ Sakena Yacoobi
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.
~ Amartya Sen
The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.
~ Naomi Wolf
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
~ Emmeline B. Wells
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
~ Bob Geldof
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.
~ Jane Harman
My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.
~ Barbara Lee
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
~ Billie Jean King
Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.
~ Paulo Freire
I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.
~ Caroline Ghosn
I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.
~ Scott Tolzien
I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.
~ Martha McSally