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Quotes About Progress

Women are the world's most underused resource.
~ Hillary Clinton
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
~ Hillary Clinton
We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.
~ Hillary Clinton
We don't think about women being leaders.
~ Hillary Clinton
It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.
~ Hillary Clinton
It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.
~ Hope Solo
Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.
~ Howard W. Koch
In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.
~ Iveta Radicova
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.
~ Jane Goodall
It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.
~ Janet Evanovich
It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
~ Jennie Finch
More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.
~ Jenson Button
Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking into it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
~ Jessica Valenti
Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.
~ Jessica Valenti
Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.
~ Jimmy Carter
Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
~ Jo Brand
For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.
~ Joey Lauren Adams
When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
~ Judith Martin