Quotes About Progress

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

I would love for people to know that the label feminist is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that it made sense to give that up.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

The world will be changed by western women.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

More women are graduating from college now than men.