Future Women Quotes

#1. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#3. For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

Francois Rabelais

#4. If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

Natasha Leggero

#5. In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

#6. My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#7. In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

David Byrne

#8. The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except - hey presto! - when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

Howard Mittelmark

#9. Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Sam Harris

#10. Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

Aldous Huxley

#11. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

#12. Women feel lonely, they remember the past and start thinking about the present or the future. However, men feel lonely so he gets horny

Various

#13. When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, "What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one's future happiness lies in the answer.

Marcel Proust

#14. I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.

Melinda Gates

#15. Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#16. In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future
for everyone.

Salma Hayek

#17. I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.

Josh Wagner

#18. When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

Gail Collins

#19. All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition.

Bob Proctor

#20. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

Michel Odent

#21. In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

Sarah MacLean

#22. And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

Tomas Young

#23. Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.

Lalita Tademy

#24. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.

Sheryl Crow

#25. - I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.
- I believe that dreams can become reality.
- I believe in true love.
- I believe in kindness and intelligence.
- I trust life, regardless.

Elysse Poetis

#26. We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce ... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

Ai-jen Poo

#27. My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

Amelia Earhart

#28. The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

Sandra Lerner

#29. America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

Ruben Hinojosa

#30. During the conflict that was placed before them, they not only gained the gratitude of many in their own generation but they proved, for the first time on a global scale, the enormous value of a woman's contribution, paving the way for future generations of women to do the same.

Kathryn J. Atwood

#31. To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

Melvil Dewey

#32. The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of, as if you'd signed up for a credit card without knowing it.

Jean Thompson

#33. Dream!
Forge yourself and rise
Out of your mind and into others.
Men, be women.
Fish, be flies.
Girls, take beards.
Sons, be your mothers.
The future of the world now lies
In coral wombs behind our eyes.

Clive Barker

#34. Man's got the power to break a woman's heart. Women have their own power. Learn this in future, choose better.

Kristen Ashley

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

Sheryl Sandberg

#36. All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

Philip Bobbitt

#37. All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.

Stefan Molyneux

#38. Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

Roxane Gay

#39. Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#40. The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

M. E. W. Sherwood

#41. I felt responsible to use my gifts, but in future churches, that pointed in the direction of children's or music ministry. But, like many women in the church whom I knew, I felt neither a call nor a predisposition to children or song.

Alan F. Johnson

#42. Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Anita Borg

#43. Married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. I have my own fossils,

Tracy Chevalier

#44. The Women's March did what it set out to do and that is to show the sheer magnitude of passion that the female voice can project and most importantly, for our future generations, it has shattered the falsity of the patriarch myth that women do not support other women.

Aysha Taryam

#45. I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.

Marin Alsop

#46. Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

Claire Keegan

#47. Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#48. When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

Madeleine Albright

#49. Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.

Pope John Paul II

#50. Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the 'New Woman' won't condescend in future to accept. She will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it too!

Bram Stoker

#51. Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#52. It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.

Alexandra Kollontai

#53. I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Oscar Wilde

#54. He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

Philippa Gregory

#55. There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams.

Joanna Lohman

#56. In this world, all
men, women, and kings
must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

Alexandre Dumas

#57. Empowering women is key to building a future we want

Amartya Sen

#58. It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

Winona LaDuke

#59. Your inner strength will lead you into a victorious future

Sl Jones

#60. You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

Laura Chinchilla

#61. If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

Richard Attias

#62. Your future is dependent on your thought today, therefore think good and lovely thoughts now!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#63. I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.

Roman Vishniac

#64. Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

Eve Ensler

#65. I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

Fred Savage

#66. Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity ... If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior ... If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

Mahatma Gandhi

#67. If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

#68. His father's general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well:

Susan Forward

#69. Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you ... increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Susan B. Anthony

#70. I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.

Carolina Herrera

#71. Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.

Don DeLillo

#72. There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?

Eve Ensler

#73. I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

Richard Lamm

#74. If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

Anita Borg

#75. After centuries of dormancy, young women ... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#76. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing ... when we save our children, we save ourselves

Margaret Mead

#77. Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.

Sally Field

#78. God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

John H. Aughey

#79. Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

Elizabeth George

#80. We need to instill the values that are important for future generations, and above all we have to show boys how to respect women.

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

#81. I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'

Lupita Nyong'o

#82. Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#83. Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

Paul C. Nagel

#84. Every single day an estimated eighteen million men gratuitously waste the future of our country, by needlessly ejaculating one hundred million citizens of our country, which had they been born, would have made us the strongest country on the planet.

Scott Andrews

#85. Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

Nawal El Saadawi

#86. The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure
the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#87. Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.

Amy Webb

#88. I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Vivienne Westwood

#89. I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

Karlie Kloss

#90. Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

Melinda Gates

#91. Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.

Maya Rodale

#92. I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.

Peter Baynham

#93. There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#94. I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.

Teresa R. Funke

#95. Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

Nancy Pelosi

#96. We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Walter Dean Myers

#97. Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Jessica Valenti

#98. A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.

Betty Friedan

#99. I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.

Vivienne Westwood

#100. I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

Raf Simons