John Rocha Quotes

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

How hard is it to get female panellists?

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

It's been great to see broadcasters waking up to the fact that women do offer a different perspective.

Women hold up the other half of the sky.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

I would love to be directed by more women.

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.