Antonio Guterres Quotes

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.

My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

I hope that women know that they can and should try everything they're interested in - with the confidence that men have had.

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don't ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.

I'm probably a little bit of an outlier for women because I don't believe that you have to self-promote to get where you're going.

If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'

I'm just sending a message to women that you can be anything you want to be.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

My wife is a very strong woman.

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!