Quotes About Progress

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.

You don't get older, you get better.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

I'm just getting older and better.

As you get older, you start trying to eat a little bit better, and just do a little better.

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.

As you grow older, you change.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.

Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere. Well, that's not true. It was also not true that there's a single era of oligarchy, because we showed we could do something about it.

The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.

Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability to run longer distances. It was finally added after much campaigning.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

Each Olympics is different.