Madeleine Albright Quotes

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

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.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

Women ten years ago were much more of the household property than is the case now. It's not to say that if you go backcountry you don't also find that. And there's a tremendous education campaign that is needed to apprise women of their rights.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

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.

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

We are the women men warned us about.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

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 connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.