Maureen Reagan Quotes

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

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 world of humanity is possessed of two wings, the male and the female. So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

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.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

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.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

If we think that our daughters ought to be in Congress next to our sons, we'd better let our sons know that now, so that they get prepared to have women as colleagues.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

This is the first generation where, to any extent, men and women are working together as equals.

We [women] seek equality. We don't seek sameness.