Lesli Linka Glatter Quotes

I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

Title IX is huge for sports but also its helped move our nation to a place where we can accept women in the workforce as well. Its opened up a lot of jobs for women. We had a female run for president in Hillary Clinton.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.