Julie Foudy Quotes

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

Leadership desperately needs women.

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

We're not seeing enough women rising to the top.

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Women will change the corporation more than we expect.

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

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

The More women at work, the sooner we win!

It seems to me that women have made an awful lot of progress, but they probably remain underrepresented at the highest levels of most organizations, for a variety of reasons. And it's probably going to take a long time to change that.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

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

I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.

We applaud any company making business decisions that empower women.