Denise Morrison Quotes

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

My message is very simple: I'm for women, I'm about women, and I want to help create lanes for more of us.

We're not seeing enough women rising to the top.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

When women succeed, America succeeds.

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

I sign this bill for my daughters, and all those who will come after us, because I want them to grow up in a nation that values their contributions, where there are no limits to their dreams and they have opportunities their mothers and grandmothers never could have imagined.

We still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling.

Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.

I believe that I can do more for women by being the best at what I do in the role that I have than going out and just talking about how women are awesome and you shouldn't mess with them.

I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.

You have to be committed to expand rights and opportunities for all women.

No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people.

Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

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

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.