Kerry Healey Quotes

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.

Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.

I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds.

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say go for it. If I can do it, so can you.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.

To enter the world of politics, you have to be comfortable there. You must imagine that you belong there…. Women have to be asked to run more so than men. Not all, but generally.

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

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.

The important thing for women to know is, you can be who you are and run for office. Women need to see themselves as good candidates, whose life experience matters, and understand that there are multiple ways that people enter public life.

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.