Luciana Berger Quotes

Politics has to be a place where women want to go.

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

Women in politics are the hope of American politics. They are either going to break the control of the bosses or put the political parties out of business.

I am looking foward to the day when we have more women in the U. S. Senate that there were victims of Harvey Weistein's sexual harassment.

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.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her.

I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

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

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.