The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.