Mary E. Pearson Quotes

We've paved the way for the woman who will be the first female President.

Is not Victoria Empress of India? Have we not, among our country-women, persons of as much talent and ability? Is not history full of precedents of women rulers?

I think it would be incredible for this country if we could have our first woman president.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

A woman running for President. There is not a thing in the Constitution to prohibit it. I cannot vote but I can be voted for.

If we can blast a woman into space, we can launch a woman into the White House.

Would America ever elect a woman President? We won’t know until we try.

I would love for there to be a female president.

I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

I think the more women we have running for office the better.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

Women…are just as capable of being heads of state as men. Some of the most forceful leaders of history, from the time of Queen Elizabeth to Israel’s Golda Meir and India’s Indira Gandhi in our own time, have been women. Mrs. Gandhi, incidentally, is prime minister of 530 million people, more than twice the population of the United States.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

People are getting tired of the "good old boy" style of politics. Women [candidates] are the alternative.