“The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.” HelpingGirlOpportunitySportsAbilityLeaderPositionKingsHonorUniqueOrganizationFoundationImpactExcitedActiveDevelopingLegacy Author:Angela Ruggiero
“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.” KnowsYearsFirstsCountryStatesInspirationGirlOpportunityGivenBecomingFemaleAllowingGovernorsUnlimitedVermontMadeleinesYears Of Service Author:Bernie Sanders
“I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too late to get in touch with your roots.” FeelsGirlOpportunityProudLateRootsToo LateMexicanNever Too LateOpportunities To Learn Author:Selena
“Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.” WorldGirlOpportunityEconomicEmpowermentAround The WorldEmpoweringInitiativeEmpowering WomenWalmartEconomic Empowerment Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.” WellsLawYoungGirlOpportunitySocialNaturalPleasurePowerSupportGreaterConditionsHonestSafeAverageSeekingProtectionEnjoymentOccupationExposedTrafficWomanhoodProstitutionAbolishLivelihoodSeducingLiving WageGreater PowerHarpies Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires tormenting each other, vampires eavesdropping on each other, and vampires being sarcastic about other vampires' hairstyles. Vampires embracing every possible opportunity to take off their shirts.” WritingShowsSchoolGirlOpportunityEventsHigh SchoolVariousMysteriousVampireShirtsSarcasticDiariesAttendingHairstylesInvestigatingEavesdroppingBeing Sarcastic Author:Kelly Link
“I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please write this down. If you have the opportunity to star in a movie, do it. Seriously, I find it's a lot easier to meet girls.” IfsWritingLittlesGuyGirlOpportunityStarsPiecesAdviceEasierPleaseGoldSingle Guy Author:Vince Vaughn
“I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.” WaySchoolNightGirlOpportunityHoursFocusWonderfulWeekLuckySixGradesGraduatesReally GreatHomeworkGreat OpportunityNerdyPrivate SchoolSeventh GradeBookworms Author:Sophia Bush
“I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.” ChoicesGirlOpportunityParentRealizingCareersMomReally GreatGreat Parents Author:Ally Condie
“I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways Im a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate.” WayTryingHas BeensSometimesDreamSeemsGirlOpportunityChanceCareersStrangeCircumstancesCelebrateAttractiveTypicalPublish Author:Pippa Middleton
“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.” NeedsHumansRealityGirlOpportunityPayRightsEqualHuman RightsWomens RightsEqual OpportunityEqual Pay Author:Hillary Clinton
“I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.” FeelsYoungChoicesGirlOpportunityThese DaysFeel Better Author:Mia Hamm
“Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.” MatterGirlOpportunityPromiseDeserveEvery Girl Author:Michelle Obama
“A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.” IfsThinkingGirlOpportunityWishPrideTenHearingAshamed Book:Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England Source: Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England
“I hope to inspire everyone - especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world, and in Middle Eastern countries that do not provide women with the same opportunities as men - to not give up their dreams and to pursue them.” PeopleMenWorldGivingCountryDreamYoungGirlOpportunityMiddleInspireGiving UpPursueEasternNot Giving Up Author:Anousheh Ansari
“A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.” ThinkingNeedsWritingArtYoungGirlOpportunityGamesCareersHavensDesignDevelopmentSkillsAll ThingsMathRealisingElitesDiverseAvenuesComposingCareer OpportunitiesMath Skills Author:Rhianna Pratchett
“I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.” GivingSchoolGirlOpportunityGivenRealizingHigh SchoolSwimGiven Up Author:Debbie Meyer