Madeleine Albright Quotes

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

I feel that I am leading a very normal life, where I am just another working woman like anyone else.

If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her.

What you hear and what the research shows is that gentlemen negotiate for their first job. Women do not negotiate from their first job and on. And I tell women there is no H.R. fairy godmother. There might be, but you better not count on it.

A lot of women feel like they put their ambitions on hold sometimes because they do hold down the household and that's something that has to change.

I have given to Democrats in the past. I've always believed in supporting the best candidate at the time.

I feel like a lot of women have been questioning their role in their workplaces and society, opportunities that they may have missed or haven't spoken up for.

Women need to find the courage to demand what they rightfully deserve. Women should be paid for the same work as their male counterparts, ask for promotions, and stand in their power in their place of employment, whether they are in a boardroom or in the movement.

I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.

There's not a lot of young conservative women out there, and I provide that.

My dissertation focused on the character traits and personality types of successful women.

I do consider myself a postfeminist. I just want women to have choices - they can be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, or they can be stay-at-home mothers and raise their kids as a job.

It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children, and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities.

When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.

A lot of women in New Zealand feel like they have to make a choice between having babies and having a career or continuing their career. So is that a decision you feel you have to make or that you feel you've already made?

Nobody is more capable to pointing out the unbalances in, let's say, supermarket prices than women.

There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.

In this country, if a woman wants to work, she has very little choice. After you cross the age suitable for a heroine, there is nothing in the middle; the next thing you do is you become a mother.

Everyone doesn't necessarily have to be a career woman.

I read 'Lean In' at a really important time as I was deciding to run for office.

If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

During my eight years at Deutsche Bank, the bank ticked every box with the elite development programs, coaching, mission statements for the advancement of women - and I was proud to be a part of it.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .