Edith Rogers Quotes

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.

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.

Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

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

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.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

Women are not all single-issue voters.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

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.

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.

Far be it for me to encourage women to vote, or take an active part in politics in the present state of our government. Her right to the elective franchise, however, is the same, and should be yielded to her, whether she exercise that right or not.

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.

Let’s face it, votes for women means votes for liberals.

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.

In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency since before they could vote, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Lockwood in 1884.

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.

I never really thought that anyone thought there was just one kind of Republican woman.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

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.