Madeleine Albright Quotes

Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

There are no such things as women's issues! All issues are women's issues.

When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.

I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.

Given my own experience in national security, I have seen while serving abroad just how important women's economic empowerment is to national security.

I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and have always had a passion for policy.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

One of the most disturbing things I heard was that women's issues weren't "hot." Which is so ironic, because women are constantly being judged on some "hot" level. The conversation is not hot enough for them to do anything about. We have to make it hot, make them feel the fire. Until then, a lot of them aren't going to do anything.

There's a lot of money to be made by taking women seriously, and letting them know you're taking them seriously.

I'm like, "Let me marry a feminist, let's do this thing." It's about time men should show up and say, "Yes, she should have access to whatever she needs."

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Women are feminist by default.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.

I certainly identify myself as a feminist.