“By choosing a woman to run for our nation’s second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock.”

Geraldine Ferraro

1935 – 2011

“One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.”

Faye Wattleton

1943 –

“Some years I’m the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.”

Cher

1946 –

“You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.”

Andrea Jung

1959 –

“I do hope that women are achieving at a rate these days that we can stop counting what number they are.”

Tina Fey

1970 –

“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.”

Margaret Sanger

1879 – 1966

“It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You’ve got to loosen your girdle and let it rip.”

Mildred Ella “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias

1911 – 1956

“If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.”

Sandra Day O’Connor

1930 –

“Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.”

Althea Gibson

1927 – 2003

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?”

Julia Child

1920 – 2004