Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Quotes

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

Equality for women is progress for all.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I am extraordinarily passionate about is furthering women's rights. I think it's something that's incredibly important, not just for girls everywhere but also boys to get involved in.

Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization that the battle for women's rights is not over, especially not globally, and that the moral imperative of our century is to achieve full rights for everyone regardless of gender.

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

Freeing women and giving them a chance at life is not imposing Dutch values on foreigners.

There are no such things as women's issues! All issues are women's issues.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'