Frances Arnold Quotes

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

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 was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.

We've paved the way for the woman who will be the first female President.

As a Senator of the U.S., a woman, is still a sort of political joke with our masculine leaders in party politics...But the trail has been blazed! The road is apparently rough—maybe rocky—but the trail has been located. It is an established fact. While it is also a romantic adventure, it will ever remain an historical precedent—never to be erased.

Radium was discovered by Madame Curie…. In defiance of the dogma that woman is inferior, public homage was rendered to Madame Curie in awarding her with the Nobel Prize.

Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. Standing here, standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come.

I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.

I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.

There had never really been a female that was breaking down a swing. So when I'd walk into a clubhouse, I'd have to explain a little bit of who I was.

Women have shown their skills and that's why they have been accepted in the industry. It's through their skill that they have managed to make a mark for themselves and also earned respect.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

I was the first woman in WWE to ever be in a WWE Studios movie and was honored to be trusted with such an opportunity.

I didn't know I was the first woman to have won three world titles, but hey, that's awesome!

AEW is history-making. When the chance presented itself to be a part of something so groundbreaking, I wasn't going to wait around any longer.