Quotes About Progress

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

It's nice to say or it's great to ask, are we limiting opportunities for women? But do we even have each other's support, frankly, on our way there?

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.