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Quotes About Progress

The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.
~ Liza Featherstone
Are women necessary? Not with Ava around
~ Maureen Dowd
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
~ Ken Livingstone
Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.
~ Clemence Dane
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
~ Thomas P.M. Barnett
There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.
~ Marissa Mayer
Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.
~ Sarah Weddington
The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
~ Nora Ephron
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
~ Dinah Shore
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.
~ Lydia M. Child
I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society
~ Susanne Bier
What I have learned the most is that women have always been integral to shaping America; they just haven't been recognized across all fields.
~ Dyllan McGee
Anything is possible for women, including being a presidential nominee.
~ Ciara
I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years.
~ Claudia Schiffer
Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.
~ Narendra Modi
Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.
~ Nelson Mandela
As women go, so goes civilization.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Male crews know that women cinematographers are here to stay, and there will be more of us. If they're professionals, they behave as such.
~ Maryse Alberti
Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
~ Walt Kelly
If you empower women, you can change the world.
~ Meg Ryan
I was very, very pro-women many years ago.
~ Donald Trump
There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.
~ Sheila Rowbotham
Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will.
~ Robin Williams