Quotes about Progress

Life is a journey. As you walk along the road you can either look back or you can look ahead. ... Look ahead. Always look for the very next step.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.

Between what is and what could be?

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; A movement is only people moving.

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.