Gloria Steinem Quotes

If President Trump were to say, 'I'm am now the first female president,' who would celebrate that?

We will have a female President.

The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women's Conference or the National Women's Conference for Carter.

I would love for there to be a female president.

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

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

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

What we suffragettes aspire to be when we are enfranchised is ambassadors of freedom to women in other parts of the world, who are not so free as we are.

We've paved the way for the woman who will be the first female President.

If we should see ladies attending conventions, traveling about the country in great carts drawn by many yoke of oxen, waving their pocket handkerchiefs to assembled multitudes, it would greatly shock our sensibilities.

Like an American Moses, she [Hillary Clinton] was an imperfect prophet, leading women to the edge of the Promised Land. Now its up to anotehr woman to enter it.

All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.

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.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

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.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

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

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.