Female Pioneer Quotes

I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh.

I was the first woman in WWE to ever be in a WWE Studios movie and was honored to be trusted with such an opportunity.

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

Phyllis Diller came through a mine field of male comedians when she arrived on the comedy scene and she defused them all. She won her place in the Hall of Comedy as the First Lady. I will miss her.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.