Quotes About Progress

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

I believe that women will lead the democracy movement.

There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.

When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.

With each door one women walks through it is incumbent to bring another woman through it with her.

Women are well on the road to equality but we haven't arrived yet.

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

when women progress, all of society benefits.

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.

When women thrive, economies thrive.