Anita Hill Quotes

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

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