Carmen Yulín Cruz Quotes

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.

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 woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

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

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

If I were not a woman, I would not have been the vice presidential candidate.

Politics is not the Business of a Woman.

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Being a woman has helped my career more than it's hindered it.

In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.

Sir Stirling Moss, who said that women don't have the mental aptitude to take part in F1, is from a different generation. There's no reason why women can't rise to the top in F1. If you're not good enough you don't survive.

I'm always disappointed by women who say they prefer working with men. What is that all about? I love working with women, I love the company of women.

I don't want to be regarded as a female pundit. I'm a pundit.