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One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

What I've learned is you treat women right.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

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

It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.