Rachel Sklar Quotes

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

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.

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.

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

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

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

In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency since before they could vote, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Lockwood in 1884.

I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.

As one of the national organizers of the Women's March back in 2017, immediately after the Women's March, over 20,000 women across the country had registered to run for office - the largest numbers we've seen in probably our entire American history for women to run in this way.

That more women are getting involved in politics - either by running for office, managing campaigns or voting - is a great thing.

It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Economic opportunities will win the women's vote.

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

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.