Quotes About Progress

The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

Women have an important contribution to make.

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from getting to the top.

I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.

There's always been a women's movement this century!