“The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsSeemsJobsMovingRealizingLinesHarderBottomScalesThreateningBottom LineMoving UpCadre Author:Madeleine Albright
“We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number of women in our legislative branches and obviously as head of state. We need to push on that. I hate to say this: It isn't all men's fault. I think some of it is our own attitude and approach. Some of it very healthy, that women want to make choices about their lives and how they want to spend their time, and what they value.” ThinkingMenWantNeedsStatesFactsAmericaValuesHateChoicesTermNumbersAttitudeHealthyApproachI HateFaultsHipsBranchesWomen WantHead Of StateLegislative Branch Author:Madeleine Albright
“The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.” ThinkingMenHappenedProjectsWeaknessTendenciesAnother Woman Author:Madeleine Albright
“I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.” IfsMenNeedsBelieveLooksKindEnoughAbleCertainChoicesSupportIssuesVoteDon't BelieveFeministCandidatesDistinctionPro LifeSupport Women Author:Madeleine Albright
“Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.” MenShouldMadeEndsMightAbleDesireClassSecurityMen And WomenTasksSavedTrialsPreservesDegradationChastityLuxuriousSeclusion Author:Madeleine Albright
“I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.” MenShouldLongHas BeensStatesProblemGovernmentMightMotherHouseKnownWifeHe ManMalesDinnerPigsSecretaryMight Have Been Author:Madeleine Albright
“There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.” MenWorldRoomsPlentyMediocre Author:Madeleine Albright
“Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.” IfsMenSaidSpeakStupid Author:Madeleine Albright
“Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.” ThinkingMenWantWellsMaySoundStupidTablesMadMeetingsBrilliant Author:Madeleine Albright
“I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.” MenColorClothesRoseWho I AmMasculineBeing A WomanProfessional LifeBright Colors Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.” ThinkingMenWayGrossNetworkingGeneralizationMaking Friends Author:Madeleine Albright
“Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.” PeopleMenHas BeensEnoughMessagesVariousSymbolsCrownsWornSignalsPinsJewelrySending A Message Author:Madeleine Albright
“I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.” IfsMenSaidStatesProblemGovernmentAmericaUnitedUnited StatesPlanesSecretaryUnited States Of America Author:Madeleine Albright
“I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.” MenWayHas BeensCountryStatesMeetingsWeatherTiesPinsHead Of State Author:Madeleine Albright
“In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.” MenTwoMotherFatherMissingBrotherCreaturesIntellectualMy BrotherTemperamentPipe Author:Madeleine Albright
“I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.” MenWorldSaidHardEnoughSeemsRoomsMediocre Author:Madeleine Albright
