Margaret Thatcher Quotes

So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there who has ever felt more like a professional juggler than a politician, you are our best hope! Run sister, run.

Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

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

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

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.

I would love for there to be a female president.

Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social experiment.

I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.

I am a lady and the leader of a national party.

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

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

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

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.

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.

In government, one actress is enough.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.