Jenny Shipley Quotes

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

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

I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

We demand that, in the strange new world that is arising alike upon the man and the woman, where nothing is as it was, and all things are assuming new shapes and new relations, that in this new world we also have our share of honored and socially useful human toil, our full half of the labor of the Children of Women. We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less. That is our ‘Woman’s Right’.

I have strived to empower women and girls throughout my entire career.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

We really need to listen to women more. All of us.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

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

The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.

I want to empower women.