Tina Fey Quotes

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.'

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.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

In government, one actress is enough.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

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.

In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

Do you think it would be possible for women to make a worse mess of politics than the men have?

If we think that our daughters ought to be in Congress next to our sons, we'd better let our sons know that now, so that they get prepared to have women as colleagues.

People are getting tired of the "good old boy" style of politics. Women [candidates] are the alternative.

Politics is not the Business of a Woman.

We [women] seek equality. We don't seek sameness.

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.”

You're asking too much of the women. They shouldn't be playing as many events as men. If tennis is best served by women playing events with men, so be it.

One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.

We're not seeing enough women rising to the top.