Shirley Chisholm Quotes

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

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 believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

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

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

The major difference lies in the parties' recruitment of female candidates. Recruitment was much more likely to shape women's candidacy decisions than men's, recruitment by party leaders being crucial, with Republicans less likely to recruit women than are Democrats.

In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

Do you think it would be possible for women to make a worse mess of politics than the men have?

[Concerning] the promotion of women. The system was designed by men and I am told constantly that "we have no women who are ready yet " for promotion. I can break that through perseverance—but it is an example of the system frustrating our purposes rather than serving them.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

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.”

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism - overt, subtle - that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either.

There are five main barriers to women entering politics - I like to think of them as the five Cs: cash, caring, culture, confidence, and the closed club.

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

At first, being girls got us a lot of attention. But no one would take us seriously.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

There is part of you as a female - no question - that feels like you have to be overprepared and outwork the men because people are automatically going to look at you and say, 'Well, you didn't play football,' or, 'You don't know what you're talking about,' because you are a female.

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 advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.