Helen Clark Quotes

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.

I think that my career and perhaps me being on the International Space Station can really show women and girls and everybody that hey, we're not just sitting at the table, we're leading the table.

I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

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.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

… better a glass door than a glass ceiling.

I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.

If you look at the pipeline of women moving up through the organisation, it's a matter of time and experience that they develop and performance that allows them to move into senior levels.

My journey in the military solidified my tireless commitment to making sure girls and women are given the opportunity to meet their full potential, and nobody tells them they can't do something because they're a girl.

When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.

I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.

I hope that women know that they can and should try everything they're interested in - with the confidence that men have had.

'Housewives' opened the door for me for people to listen.

Breaking through glass ceilings isn't reserved for liberals.

I will not allow my experience to scare off other young women or girls from running for office. For the sake of all of us we cannot let that happen.

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.

I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.