Quotes About Progress

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.

Coolest f-word ever deserves a fu..ing shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.

Womens humor is part of the revolution.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the Constitution.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

Women are the real architects of society.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.