Quotes about Progress
Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.
- Elbert Hubbard
women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.
- Gloria Steinem
They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.
- Gloria Steinem
When women progress, all of society benefits.
- Hillary Clinton
In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.
- Hillary Clinton
I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.
- Hillary Clinton
Women have an important contribution to make.
- Margaret Mead
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
- Oscar Wilde
I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.
- Sheryl Sandberg
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.
- Sheryl Sandberg
The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.
- Michelle Obama