Karen Bardsley Quotes

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys.

I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.

I've been very lucky to work in a newsroom where there are lots of strong, funny, clever women in senior positions.

Female goalkeepers are seen as equals in academies now. We're trying to set a good example for the younger boys so they're used to seeing us women around, making great saves and scoring great goals.

Little girls need someone to look up to - and little boys need strong women to look up to, as well. I don't think your heroes should be relegated to someone who's the same sex or from the same background as you. Little boys should grow up wanting to be like Serena Williams.

It is critical to create opportunities to identify talented women in business, then support them to develop their confidence to aim for the boardroom.

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.

Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

I want to make America better!

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.