Naomi Alderman Quotes

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.

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

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.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

In government, one actress is enough.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

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

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

Women in politics are the hope of American politics. They are either going to break the control of the bosses or put the political parties out of business.

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.

I am looking foward to the day when we have more women in the U. S. Senate that there were victims of Harvey Weistein's sexual harassment.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

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

Unfortunately, too few women take the risk of running for political office or assuming positions of influence. As a result, our voices are not part of the conversation yet alone the final decision.

One of the things 'Cosmo' feels really strongly about is we need more women candidates running, and we need more women across the parties in D.C.

Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

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

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.