Martha McSally Quotes

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

It is time for the U. S. military to get over its hang-ups and acknowledge women’s rightful place on the battlefield…. There are physically fit, tough women who are suitable for combat, and weak and feeble men who are not.

I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military.

We saw the integration of the female pilots in the Navy, in combat roles, and the resistance there in the beginning.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground.'

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

The CAA says that women are psychologically not fitted to be pilots, but I see pictures every now and then of women who are teaching men to fly. We know that in England, where the need is great, women are ferrying planes and freeing innumerable men for combat service.

I feel extremely fortunate that I can be a fighter pilot and not a female fighter pilot.

It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actually drafted into combat. I'm very uncomfortable with that.

Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

The military is already sexually integrated.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.