Country Quote by Ellen Wilkinson

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women…

— Theodore Parker

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

— Emma Watson

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

— Jo Swinson

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other…

— Judith Ellen Foster

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other…

— Judith Ellen Foster

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

— Shirley Chisholm

We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but…

— Marion Kirkland Reid

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

— Corazon Aquino

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

If politics mean…the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people’s…

— Irene Parlby

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

— Jo Swinson

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages…

— Louisa Lawson