Condoleezza Rice Quotes

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.

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.

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?

Few things give me more pride and hope for our future than when I see women, of all ages and backgrounds, in leadership roles. We need even more women in elected office, running businesses, and guiding organizations.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Women…are just as capable of being heads of state as men. Some of the most forceful leaders of history, from the time of Queen Elizabeth to Israel’s Golda Meir and India’s Indira Gandhi in our own time, have been women. Mrs. Gandhi, incidentally, is prime minister of 530 million people, more than twice the population of the United States.

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

It's important for women to continue to break through barriers in our industry, in politics, in Wall Street.

I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.

Just telling women: If you don't speak up, things aren't gonna change. If you don't become an advocate, it's not gonna change. If you don't vote, it's not gonna change. If you don't run, it's not gonna change.

I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

I am the first female chief executive of Hong Kong.

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

Much to my surprise, not a moment have I been made to feel, 'Alright, a woman - probably the prime minister wanted to make a token gesture.' The ease with which people have taken this thought of a woman minister has been a great strength for me and has made my job far easier.

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

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

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

Equality for women is progress for all.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

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.

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.