Janet Yellen Quotes

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

… better a glass door than a glass ceiling.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

Breaking through glass ceilings isn't reserved for liberals.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

Give the girls a chance.

I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.

We want to believe that we live in a world where our daughters can do anything and be anything. And you'd think they could - they outnumber boys in college, graduate school, and the work force.

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

I never considered myself less worthy than a man in football. Never. Never, never, never.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.