Average Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

— Susanne Bier

We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked…

— Eleanor Smeal

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being…

— Lucy Larcom

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

— George William Curtis

Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented -- their potential astonishingly untapped.

— Emma Watson

About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament…

— Sheryl Sandberg

A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom…

— Jackson Katz

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

— George Eliot

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

— Christopher Morley

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

— Theresa May