Bumble gives men a chance to take a step back and not be the macho aggressor that they may not want to be but were socialized to be. We think it makes for a better and more peaceful environment for everyone.
Whitney Wolfe HerdRead
Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Women should empower and uplift each other to achieve their fullest potential.
This quote emphasizes the importance of solidarity among women in fostering an environment where they can support one another. It advocates for creating opportunities that not only encourage women to help each other but also contribute to their growth and success in various aspects of life, ultimately leading to a collective advancement of women in society.
Themes
SupportWomenEmpowermentOpportunitiesPotential
In practice
Example use cases
During a women's conference to inspire collaboration among attendees.
More from Whitney Wolfe Herd
All quotes βThe implication that women are poised to make unfounded accusations in droves is even more alarming when every piece of data on false reporting contradicts that false notion. We need to believe women and believe in women.
Whitney Wolfe HerdRead
Always know your merit and how special you are, and don't let someone else's qualifications make you feel small. If you stick to this, you will always deserve their respect.
Whitney Wolfe HerdRead
I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.
Whitney Wolfe HerdRead
The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
Whitney Wolfe HerdRead
Networking is extremely masculine. It's a vulnerable thing to admit to, but even I experience feeling super insecure around certain masculine meetings. So, we put women in control. Women will make the first move on Bumble Bizz as well.
Whitney Wolfe HerdRead
Similar quotes
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.
Elizabeth StroutRead
And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.
Shimon PeresRead
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
Charles BukowskiRead
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
Elton JohnRead
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
Robert BrowningRead