Quotes About Progress

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

Leadership desperately needs women.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

I'm excited to see the growth in women's cycling, and I think the Women's Tour has had a really positive impact on that change.

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Work until your idols become your rivals

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.