Elaine Chao Quotes

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

… this mad, wicked folly of women’s rights

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

We still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling.