Johanna Siguroardottir Quotes

There are not many roles where women are really active.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

The position of women in SNCC is prone!

Women are the most underutilized resource in the world.

Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

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.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

The serious problems facing the world... will only be solved if women have a seat at the table and are listened to as to what is required. These issues will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families and their global and local communities.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Women are not a special interest group in the usual sense of the term. We are half the population.

It seems to me that your country will have to take advantage of the brains and the education and the skills and the capacities of women in order to be what you ought to be and do what you have to do.