Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

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

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

The need for women to have their own individual identity belongs to your generation, not mine.

The past subjection of women has so chastened women, so trained her to think of others rather than of herself, that after all it may have acted more as a blessing rather than a curse to the world? May it not bring her to the problems of the future with a purer aim and a keener insight than is possible for a man?

Women were really the backbone of the civil rights movement, although the leadership was predominantly male. At the rallies, the audience was women and children. The platform was predominantly men.

There are more women in the Iranian parliament than in the United States senate.

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.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.