Memorable Quotes:
“I think we’ve hit a moment and time where thinking about women and how we amplify women’s voices is incredibly important and meaningful. I don’t think it’s a trend. I think it’s a change we’re seeing in society.” – Amy Nelson
“Women received in the past two years less than 3% of venture capital dollars.” – Amy Nelson
“I know I stand on a shoulder of giants, of people who did this when there was no chance.” – Amy Nelson
“You have to get through the system to change the system.” – Amy Nelson
“I am often asked about my ability to be a parent and be a founder. And I am pretty sure that no man is ever asked that.” – Amy Nelson
“I think there’s something really powerful about motherhood. Mothers are warriors.” – Amy Nelson
“I think we teach boys to be brave and take risks, and we teach girls to be good.” – Amy Nelson
“How do we do that and support each of them in manifesting the work that they’re meant to do in the world?” – Jerry Colonna
“I want a future where women at least have a quality of opportunity and that’s what The Riveter is built for. That’s how we’re calibrated and what we’re working toward.” – Amy Nelson
“You wanna be surrounded by people who have common experiences and common goals, or recognize who you are.” – Amy Nelson
“When you feel like you don’t have the same opportunity, you don’t feel like you belong. You don’t feel like you’re supposed to be in the room.” – Amy Nelson
“I think that we were allowed into the room, but we were never given a seat at the table.” – Amy Nelson
“I hate the word empowerment…Women don’t need to be given power. Women have power.” – Amy Nelson
“It’s trendy to support women entrepreneurs in some ways.” – Amy Nelson
“I’m not gonna stand behind you and push you, because that implies again that I have more power than you do. And I do not. I have a vantage point that is different. That is it. And so standing shoulder to shoulder with you looking forward, I see the challenge that you have. It’s subtle and it’s important.” – Jerry Colonna
“The world will not change unless we all change it together unless we all give our children the same messages.” – Amy Nelson
“If you want change, you have to fight and claw, and demand for it, and share your worst stories.” – Amy Nelson
“Women tell one another how to survive the patriarchy not how to change it. We are conditioned to this point to do that.” – Amy Nelson
“I don’t want to live in a world where men and women, however they identify, are handcuffed by a patriarchy.” – Jerry Colonna
“Studies show that the likelihood that you’ll get better results is if you have diverse teams, why wouldn’t you take that bet.” – Amy Nelson
“You have one life to live. You have one bat to swing, and you might as well take the hardest swing you can.” – Amy Nelson
“If we’re gonna get closer to that world that we know is possible, then we all have to stand in the tragic gap.” – Jerry Colonna
“The opportunity to alleviate our suffering is to stand together in that gap and to create that place of belonging in our suffering. So that we’re not divided by that suffering, but we’re actually united by the fact that yup, we’re gonna roll up our sleeves and human development continues and we have work to do as a species.” – Jerry Colonna
