Eleanor Smeal Quotes

When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

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.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

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.

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

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

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

You're not going to have a society that understands its humanity if you don't have more women in government.

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

I would love for there to be a female president.

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

The Conservatives don't need more women. They need women like Karren Brady.

The world need strong leadership for women's rights.

I will not allow my experience to scare off other young women or girls from running for office. For the sake of all of us we cannot let that happen.

Politics has to be a place where women want to go.

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.