Shraddha Srinath Quotes

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

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

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross.

Women are getting a lot smarter. Before they were very adventuresome. Today, women are not going to take chances on higher office unless there's a good chance of winning.

If we can blast a woman into space, we can launch a woman into the White House.

If we could produce one or two more Madame Curies, that would accomplish far more for the advancement of women than any amount of agitation, argument and legislation.

The more education and the better credentials women have, the more freedom they have to choose the extent to which they will work outside their homes.

... you will be amused that when Mr. Dulles said goodbye to me this morning he said 'I feel I must tell you that when you were appointed I thought it terrible & now I think your work here has been fine!' So - against the odds the women inch forward, but I'm rather old to be carrying on the fight ... .

I'm from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn't wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.