Mariel Hemingway Quotes

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

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

You're not going to have a society that understands its humanity if you don't have more women in government.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

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.

You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.

The political power of women today is greater than they are using.

If we can blast a woman into space, we can launch a woman into the White House.

No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women

If women can rule monarchies they should vote in republics.

Women were really the backbone of the civil rights movement, although the leadership was predominantly male. At the rallies, the audience was women and children. The platform was predominantly men.

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 hope the women of the United States will awaken to the full sense of the influence which they can wield if they accept the responsibility which all power implies.

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

I believe women need to take charge.

Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.

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 would love for there to be a female president.

I think being a young woman is a strength.

I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.