Priyanka Chopra Quotes

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.

Persians had women leading the army, women leading the country, women who govern for thousands of years.

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

I'd be just incredibly humbled and honored to be the first woman president.

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

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.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

Is not Victoria Empress of India? Have we not, among our country-women, persons of as much talent and ability? Is not history full of precedents of women rulers?

Would America ever elect a woman President? We won’t know until we try.

Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

Women have always run the world; maybe it's time to give them a chance at ruling it.

Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain's first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable position in the western world.

There was that argument that if we had more women in positions of authority, the world would be a nicer place. And then we got Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Indira Gandhi. When women become acclimatised to war, they can become every bit as ruthless as men.

I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.

I am a lady and the leader of a national party.

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.

We've never had a female President in this country, which I find stunning

Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.