John Glenn Quotes

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.

I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.

Other things equal, we should give a chance to women. That's what I try to do.

I believe that the sport of football has set itself up to be in a position where it shows itself in the bigger picture to not really care about women - they don't really care about people of color, but we won't get into that for NFL either - but as a woman I feel like a person who has been marginalized.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

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

Very few women are creative. I would not send a daughter of mine to study physics.

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

It is time for the U. S. military to get over its hang-ups and acknowledge women’s rightful place on the battlefield…. There are physically fit, tough women who are suitable for combat, and weak and feeble men who are not.