Quotes About Progress

There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

Why don't more women attain enlightenment?

When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.

The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.

Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.