Agency Quote by David Brinkley

For too long, women in America were excluded from our government and the political process.

— Byron Donalds

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

— Mazie Hirono

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted…

— Madeleine Albright

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Dana Bash

Women have no government.

— Victoria Woodhull

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

— Henrietta Szold

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

— Florence Ellinwood Allen

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and…

— Gloria Steinem

If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it's as if women are supposed to retrofit…

— Cecile Richards

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a…

— Madeleine Albright

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