Natasia Demetriou Quotes

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

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

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 not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.

I wrote what it was like growing up as a female in India, and I got two and a half million shares, and people came up to me and thanked me for speaking up.

Politics wasn't a traditional course for a woman.

As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said and done in his political life.

As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.