Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

The More women at work, the sooner we win!

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

I consider every attempt to induce women to think they have a just right to participate in the public duties of government as injurious to their best interests and derogatory to their character.

I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don't want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don't wake up in the morning and think, 'I am a woman in tech.' I just go to work, and my work is in technology.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.