Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

People cannot understand that a women, even if she is a President’s wife, can have independent views.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

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

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

I do not believe that being First Lady should prevent me from expressing my views.

If a woman demonstrates that she is fitted to be President, she will one day occupy the White House. It will be entirely on her own merits however. No movement can place her there simply because she is a woman.

If we can blast a woman into space, we can launch a woman into the White House.

give the lie to the popular clam our that the women of Utah are oppressed and held in bondage. Let the world know that the women of Utah prefer virtue to vice, and the home of an honorable wife to the gilded pageantry of fashionable temples of sin.

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

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.

A woman’s name should appear in print but twice—when she is married and when she is buried.

We try and give as much diversity to our show as possible. That's something that's very strong in our show: there are so many strong female leads in 'The 100.'

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.

I believe in women having a voice, being empowered, speaking up, and having ideas.

I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, 'Women's rights are human rights,' and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the '18 million cracks' in the glass ceiling.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.