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Quotes About Progress

Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
~ Anita Borg
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.
~ Hugh Hefner
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
~ Judy Chicago
I really want to help write women back into history.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.
~ Dalia Mogahed
Women are not the problem they're the solution
~ Sheryl WuDunn
But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here.
~ Trish Stratus
I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.
~ Crystal Eastman
I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.
~ Joan Jett
I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
~ Mitch McConnell
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
~ Alice Kahn
Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
~ Ani DiFranco
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Women are the architects of society
~ Cher
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.
~ Cathy Guisewite
As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.
~ Linda Gordon
My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
~ Carol P. Christ
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
~ Dale Spender
It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
~ Martha Stewart