Michelle Bachelet Quotes

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

The personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings...would be a practical evil not only of the gravest but even of an intolerable character.

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

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.

A woman running for President. There is not a thing in the Constitution to prohibit it. I cannot vote but I can be voted for.

Any woman who is single, a taxpayer and has sufficient property should be allowed to vote

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

I consider every attempt to induce women to think they have a just right to participate in the public duties of government as injurious to their best interests and derogatory to their character.

We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

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.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

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.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.