Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?'

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.”

I hope to be viewed and judged first and foremost by my accomplishments and capabilities as a leader - regardless of my gender.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

I think, being a woman, we got to prove ourselves twice.

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.