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Politics is a potent way to empower women.

I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'

Politics is a very male-dominated, male-driven profession. I was not just a woman but a young woman, and I suppose you end up trying to behave in a way that you think is expected of you.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

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

It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.