Eleanor Smeal Quotes

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.