Pramila Jayapal Quotes

A woman can be in charge!

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.

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

It’s important to say that none of the world’s great religions has been good for women. Not a single one of them.

This comic is meant to chronicle a great movement now under way—the growth in the power of women.

One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.

In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.

In Saudi society, women are extremely respected. I never had an issue with that at all.

These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.

Dangal' movie has been made on our lives in which two daughters win a medal for the country. It just shows that the times are changing and people's attitudes are changing and if it is changing because of us then we are very happy about it.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

I strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.