Lubna Olayan Quotes

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

This is the first generation where, to any extent, men and women are working together as equals.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

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

When women are not at the negotiating table, their rights get negotiated away.

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

Women are not a special interest group in the usual sense of the term. We are half the population.

An Act to Relieve the Legal Disabilities of Women

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

There must be equal opportunities for women. There is no difference between man and woman in their creation, in their humanity, in their pursuit of knowledge, in their understanding, in their intelligence, in their religious piety, in serving God and in serving people.

I believe men and women should be afforded the same opportunities.

I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and have always had a passion for policy.

When there is a certain subject matter where I want to get involved, where I think I could add to the conversation, and especially with gender issues, I appreciate having that voice and that seat at the table.

No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people.

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

Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.