Preneet Kaur Quotes

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

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.”

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

You're not going to have a society that understands its humanity if you don't have more women in government.

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

Of course it would be wonderful for Hillary Clinton to be the first female president, but I think she would be the first to say that she wouldn't want people to vote for her just because she's a woman.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

Politics has to be a place where women want to go.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.

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.

Equality for women is progress for all.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.