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Quotes About Progress

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
~ Frederick Douglass
The future of rock belongs to women.
~ Kurt Cobain
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
~ Margaret Mead
To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.
~ Patti LuPone
I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.
~ Miranda Kerr
I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.
~ Jo Grimond
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
~ Martha Griffiths
When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.
~ Rosa Parks
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
~ Gloria Steinem
We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.
~ Ida Lupino
More and more women are going online.
~ Jesse Schell
I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
~ Ernestine Rose
Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
~ Michelle Bachelet
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any?
~ Helen Wills
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
~ Jane Fonda
There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
~ Alix Kates Shulman
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
~ Sally Ride