In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Politics is a potent way to empower women.
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.
The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.
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.'
I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.