Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Yes, there are obstacles as a woman; there is no doubt about it.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, then there's something wrong with American politics.

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.

Politics is not the Business of a Woman.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

In the early days of Islam, women were much more socially and politically active than they are today.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

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.”