Quotes About Progress

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

Empowering women isn't just the right thing to do - it's the smart thing to do.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't