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Quotes About Progress

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.
~ Kathrine Switzer
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
~ Doris Lessing
Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.
~ Rosanna Arquette
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
~ Fred Brooks
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
~ Lillian Hellman
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
~ George Meredith
The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.
~ Hillary Clinton
Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.
~ Ava DuVernay
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
~ Felicity Kendal
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.
~ Cathy Hughes
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
~ John Lennon
We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
~ Betty Friedan
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
~ Charlotte Bunch
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
~ Florence Kelley
It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.
~ Pope Francis
one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.
~ Susan Jacoby
The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
~ Muhammad Ali
I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.
~ Gina Torres