“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” - Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, but we’ve made it! We’ve made it — all of us.” - Ketanji Brown Jackson, United States Supreme Court Justice, the first Black woman to sit on America's highest court
“One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic, it means I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.” -Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
“We are here, not because we are lawbreakers; we are here in our efforts to be law-makers.” - Emmeline Pankhurst, British political activist who organized the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” - Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
“There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane’. They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you.” - Kamala Harris, former Vice President of the United States
“I’m in politics because I thought that the older generation wasn’t doing enough about the big issues of the future. I needed to act. I couldn’t just think, ‘It’s somebody else’s job’.” - Sanna Marin, former Prime Minister of Finland
“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” - Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States
“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.” – Hilary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State, First Lady to the 42nd President
“Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.” - Angela Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman.” — Melinda French Gates, philanthropist
“Some leaders are born women.” ― Geraldine Ferraro, former United States Representative and the first American woman to run for vice president
“I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn’t come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.” - Dilma Rousseff, former President of Brazil
“What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters.” - Kamala Harris, former Vice President of the United States
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” - Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” - Shirley Chisholm, former American politician, educator, and author
“There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.” – Hilary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State, First Lady to the 42nd President
“Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.” - Rania al Abdullah, Queen Consort of Jordan
“As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.” - Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court
“All my life I’ve believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents…consequently there should be equality in life’s chances.” - Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
“It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.” - Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland
“I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colours and being who I am.” - Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
“Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world’s poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.” - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, former Prime Minister of Iceland
“Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don’t I take a step and move forward?” - Malala Yousafzai, education advocate, the world’s youngest person to be awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
“One thing I believe profoundly: We make our own history. The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people.”- Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States
