Quotes about Opportunity

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

The growing role of technology and professional courses in the universities must be tapped to encourage more women to take up the courses and to contribute to the economic growth.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

The men and women of America who have been forgotten will never be forgotten again.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.