Nina Turner Quotes

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

To enter the world of politics, you have to be comfortable there. You must imagine that you belong there…. Women have to be asked to run more so than men. Not all, but generally.

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.

I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

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.

Many women have education. But education in professional matters is very different from education in politics and preparing to take leadership roles in the society

As a representative of women let my message be: Yes you can.

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.

I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

It's important to have strong images of women out there, women who aren't afraid of expressing themselves, women who aren't afraid of taking chances, women who aren't afraid of their own power.