Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneer and a role model for women across America. She is the reason women like me not only believed we had a right to be in the workplace, but were guaranteed it. She won us equality, and then showed us how to succeed.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

I want to empower women.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

When women succeed, America succeeds.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Equality for women is progress for all.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

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.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

There are a lot of good women in New York.