Barbara Boxer Quotes

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, then there's something wrong with American politics.

Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

To-day is holden at Worcester [MA] the "Woman's Convention." I think that as long as they have not equal rights of property and right of voting they are not on the right footing.

My own adhesion to the Suffrage Cause was given largely because I saw that only through political equality may we hope to see established a true understanding and a happier relationship between the sexes.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

The thing I have learned this year is that any improvement in the great mass of women is only possible through socialism…

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

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.

Thanks to advancements in gender equality, you now have salty women like me who not only follow politics but also share their opinions on the daily.

To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

I think that changing stereotypes and attitudes, it takes time. As we progress and we have more women astronauts and more women in construction sites and everything else, then we're making progress. Discrimination is deeply embedded in our community, but we do have the tools to combat it.

I asked, "What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?" And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton's run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn't win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.