Amy Klobuchar Quotes

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.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.