Agnes Smedley Quotes

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen.

Both at home and abroad, Ivanka Trump has been a strong and confident advocate for female equality.

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

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

I'm very excited to be teaming up with Merck for the 'Lets Go There' Campaign. It's a really important campaign to me because it's something that celebrates women.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

Unless the woman is liberated, there is no freedom in Iraqi land.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

I want to create opportunities for women, of course.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women's equality is very personal for me. That's why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women's rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care.

To give women more opportunity, women's empowerment is very, very close to my heart.

I have always believed women have so many natural leadership qualities. They just need opportunities and access.

Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.