Jeanine Pirro Quotes

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

I'm not doing what I do to prove what a woman is capable of. I'm not doing what I do to make Formula E more diverse. I'm doing what I do to be successful. If that's inspirational, then great.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

You know what they say, ‘Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.

When I started boxing, people laughed at me and said, 'What can women do in boxing?' I took it as a challenge. If men can do it, why can't women? And I became a world champion before my marriage.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it's such a great soap box.

Especially in our society, for a woman to be ambitious and controlling, that's a negative. Whereas me as a person, I don't think that's negative. If I wasn't ambitious and controlling to a certain extent, I wouldn't be where I am today.

It's depressing that ambition and feminism have become almost dirty words for working women. But, there is no reason that they should be and, increasingly, I am struck by how the next generation is challenging conceptions of what it means to be successful at work.

We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Every woman inspires me.