Claire Sergeant Quotes

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

Women stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

To-day is holden at Worcester [MA] the "Woman's Convention." I think that as long as they have not equal rights of property and right of voting they are not on the right footing.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.

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.

Women voting is like prostitution.

I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress in favor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

I've had it with those women - women! - who seek to undermine the serious work of women in Israeli politics by describing them as 'attractive and elegant' but utterly vacant.

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.

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics...? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

Our women have minds too. Let them show their faces to the world, and see it with their eyes…Don’t be afraid. Change is essential, so much so that, if need be, we are prepared to sacrifice lives for its sake.

We will have a female President.