Florence Ellinwood Allen Quotes

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

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;

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

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

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 as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

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.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters.