Frances Perkins Quotes

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

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.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, 'Women's rights are human rights,' and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the '18 million cracks' in the glass ceiling.

I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

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?

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'

Women in the Islamic world are the hope of the whole planet.

In the long term, female education may be the best way to advance the status of women.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

As for Western women, it seems to me that they have often had to struggle to obtain their own rights. That did not leave them much time to prove their abilities. The time will come.

The need for women to have their own individual identity belongs to your generation, not mine.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside in the White House.

If we could produce one or two more Madame Curies, that would accomplish far more for the advancement of women than any amount of agitation, argument and legislation.

As a representative of women let my message be: Yes you can.