Vera Wang Quotes

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Treating women like a burden to the men is one of the reasons for poverty.

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

We demand that, in the strange new world that is arising alike upon the man and the woman, where nothing is as it was, and all things are assuming new shapes and new relations, that in this new world we also have our share of honored and socially useful human toil, our full half of the labor of the Children of Women. We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less. That is our ‘Woman’s Right’.

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law

Women are the most underutilized resource in the world.

We still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling.

People cannot understand that a women, even if she is a President’s wife, can have independent views.

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.

When I started, there very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like when I looked up I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'

When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.

Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

There are so many double standards, not just in rap, but everywhere.

People continue to put our league down. It's because we're women; that's the fight. And it's a majority of black women; that's the other fight. But we represent America to the fullest. And it's weird to me that people wouldn't want to support that. I don't get it.

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.

We must develop a truly global roadmap to eradicate all forms of discrimination still suffered by women.