Quotes About Progress

What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.