Rebecca Traister Quotes

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.

We still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling.

As a Senator of the U.S., a woman, is still a sort of political joke with our masculine leaders in party politics...But the trail has been blazed! The road is apparently rough—maybe rocky—but the trail has been located. It is an established fact. While it is also a romantic adventure, it will ever remain an historical precedent—never to be erased.

Would America ever elect a woman President? We won’t know until we try.

If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

What fascinates me is that when we look at the history of women in politics, so frequently the women who get the farthest are the women who are quite conservative in their political views.

Politics has to be a place where women want to go.

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

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.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

In government, one actress is enough.

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.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

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.

I am so blessed that I have been able to live long enough to see a woman nominated for president.

I want a woman president - really, I do.

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

I think it would be incredible for this country if we could have our first woman president.

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain's first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable position in the western world.

I'm very worried about the future for women in politics.