Ellen Key Quotes

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.

Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.

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.

There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

I want people to live to their full potential, not to hold themselves back because of insecurities, and especially not women. I see too much of that.