Quotable Quotes

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.
-Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
-Kofi Anan

Of my two "handicaps", being female put more obstacles in my path than being black
-Shirley Chisholm

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression
-Eleanor Roosevelt