Quotes About Progress

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

So here's to success, here's to women, here's to the men, who today have begun to acknowledge, that 50-50, would be the best.

Woman putting other woman down is like telling the world that you are more worried about your competition than your own progress.

1813 Women have no rights. 1913 Women fight for some rights. 2013 Women are always fu..ing right.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s.

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

In retrospect, it is evident that the emphasis on 'man as enemy' deflected attention away from focus on improving relationships between women and men, ways for men and women to work together to unlearn sexism.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

The signals of the century, Proclaims the things that are to be - The rise of woman to her place, The coming of a nobler race.