Kimberly Bryant Quotes

There are so many career opportunities out there now for young women, and it's great to have the opportunity to encourage them to get involved in these new careers.

I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.

We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.

TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

I hope my studies may be an encouragement to other women, especially to young women, to devote their lives to the larger interests of the mind. It matters little whether men or women have the more brains; all we women need to do to exert our proper influence is just to use all the brains we have.

It's important for women to continue to break through barriers in our industry, in politics, in Wall Street.

The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.

To this day, I have an open door policy. I seek out interns and young women and try to help them. Women mentors were important to me, and I want to do that for others.

If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic, political, and social gains we have made over decades.

We need more women in higher roles, because the tone for sexual harassment would no doubt be different.

I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.

Women are going to be a huge force in developing Web and mobile companies.

It's so great to be able to inspire these young women today to get involved in male-dominated subjects.

We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.