Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Woman alone can ... speak effectively for woman, since none others can speak with authority, or from the depths of personal experience.

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.

Would I like to see more women in the courts? Yep.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

I'd like to see more female heads of studios because what's also being crucially lost is the female perspective: 50% of the population are not having their stories told.

Women bring a different perspective to the table, and lawmaking is a compilation of diverse ideas and views and perspective. And when you don't have that, you end up making bad laws.

When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

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.

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.

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.

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.