Betty Boothroyd Quotes

I am a mom as well as a senator!

It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.

No ugly woman can succeed in politics.

The logical sequence of suffrage is office-holding. Female suffrage will never reach its full fruition until fully one-half of all public offices, legislative, judicial and executive, local and national, are filled by women. Is the public mind ready for this risky innovation?

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.

Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

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.

Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters.

Why should one have to be sad, ugly, and boring to go into politics these days.

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

We will have a female President.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

We have much participation of women in Afghanistan politics. Yet 86 percent of the women are illiterate. I and the women who come before you are not typical of women in our country.

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

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

Women have cleaned up things since time began, and if women get into politics there will be a cleanup.

The State shall guarantee coordination between a woman’s duties toward her family and her work in the society, considering her equal to man in the political, social, cultural and economic spheres without detriment to the rules of Islamic jurisprudence

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis

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.”

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.