Eleanor Smeal Quotes

I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas.

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

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

It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'

On average, women need to be asked to run seven times before they actually do. While men, who are more likely to run, usually decide to do so on their own. We should be asking more women we know to run for offices across the spectrum - at the local, state, and federal levels.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

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 all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

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

Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already.

We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.

I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

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

What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn't that same comfort level in other women who are rising the ranks. And I don't know how to fix that.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.

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