Cate Blanchett Quotes

Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

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.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

This House is not prepared to enfranchise all men.

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

The extension of suffrage will not forbid the supremacy of intelligence.

Naturally I knew it was ridiculous to deprive half the people of the country of any voice in the laws they had to live under, merely on account of a trifling difference in sex, but I did not think anything I could do about it was likely to be helpful.

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics... ? Is it right that while the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, the majority of whom are men, making decisions for women.

Give the woman the ballot and you will make her more important in the eyes of the world.

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.