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In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is…

— Bernie Sanders

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

— Donna Brazile

When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and…

— Cynthia Nixon

I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In 1992, Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were elected to the Senate - the first time women held both seats from the same state. But…

— Jonathan Capehart

Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

“Charlotte Woodward was more than ninety years old when she finally gained the right to vote, but she got there. My mother had just…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“was one of just 27 women out of 235 students in my class at Yale Law School. The first woman partner at the oldest…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

— Eleanor Rathbone

“Relentlessly sociable and bent on a public life, the transition to the legislature was natural for a woman who never seemed to recognize how…

— Linda Hirshman

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975…

— Noam Chomsky

I know the women in the Trump Corporation, have gotten to know them very well recently. Obviously, let the record reflect it was Donald…

— Kellyanne Conway