Isabel Allende Quotes

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

I'd like to see a world where there are so many Latina women leaders - and women of all different backgrounds - in the top jobs around the country. When that happens, we've succeeded.

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

We still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling.

I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.

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.

After the #MeToo movement, I told my team to hire as many women as possible. So there are always a lot of women in my team. I talk to them and they read the script and come up with their own suggestions.

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

I've always wanted to do stuff to help encourage more women to play, whether it's booking women on my shows at home, even when I was just playing DIY shows, or booking benefit shows and having all women play.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

Transforming our societies and our economies is an agenda that requires the participation of all. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are key. Including and empowering women and girls to develop and implement climate solutions is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing to do.

Women make the world go round.

My message is very simple: I'm for women, I'm about women, and I want to help create lanes for more of us.

Hire women. Trust women. Let them succeed. They are a pleasure to work with.

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

I believe that raising the status of women in Turkey is a responsibility shared by everyone. It is not only in Turkey; we are still in need of serious support for the role of women in business and society all around the world.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.