Progress

Progress

Here at Wordmonger, we’re celebrating the last three weeks of Women’s History Month by focusing on selected words of selected women. This week we’ll take a look at some wise women ’s thoughts about progress.

“Progress” affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

Alice Walker 

Even the “worst blizzard of the century” accumulates one flake at a time.

Mary Kay Blakely

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Frances E. Willard

We have not crawled so very far

up our individual grass-blade

toward our individual star.

Hilda Doolittle

Things that don’t get better, get worse.

Ellen Sue Stern

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Barbara Ward

May whatever progress you’re hoping for in your life come to fruition.

My thanks go out to this week’s sources: The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women., Oxford Dictionary, & Etymonline.