Quotes About Progress

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.

Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.