Marsha Blackburn Quotes

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

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.

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?

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.

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

We will have a female President.

As for Western women, it seems to me that they have often had to struggle to obtain their own rights. That did not leave them much time to prove their abilities. The time will come.

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 consider every attempt to induce women to think they have a just right to participate in the public duties of government as injurious to their best interests and derogatory to their character.

With the nation-wide induction of womanhood into our political life, we may count upon her intuitions, her refinements, her intelligence, and her influence to exalt the social order. We count upon her exercise of the full privileges and the performance of the duties of citizenship to speed the attainment of the highest state.

I would love for there to be a female president.

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.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

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

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

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.

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

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.