Venus Williams Quotes

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

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

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.'

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

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.

I believe in women having a voice, being empowered, speaking up, and having ideas.

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 the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.

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.

Breaking through glass ceilings isn't reserved for liberals.

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don't ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.

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.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

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

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

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

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

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

I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.

In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's speech when she lost the election - she didn't want young girls to feel like it wasn't possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That's important.