Allies Quote by Ellen Swallow Richards

I try to engage women who are thinking about running for office or up-and-coming leaders to embrace the power they do have, and not…

— Laphonza Butler

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

— Melinda Clarke

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

— Nancy Pelosi

Women are very powerful! That's why I believe in women's rights and why I fight for it.

— Kenza Fourati

It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Being a woman leader is secondary to me - and should be to others.

— Heather Bresch

Some suggest that, as a woman, I meddle in political affairs and need to be 'put in my place.'

— Ilhan Omar

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process…

— Nancy Pelosi

I have had the privilege of working closely with some of the greatest women in this country. The idea that their contributions would not…

— Tom Malinowski

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

— Ellen Barkin

Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must…

— Angela Lansbury

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in…

— Emmeline Pankhurst