Glass Ceiling Quotes

• Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

  Madeleine Albright

  Glasses, Broken, Ceilings

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• I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. I know that there is, in theory, a glass ceiling. But I don't believe that it's a solid wall. I'm going through it. Nothing's stopping me. Yes, there are these preconceived notions; yes, we have challenges. Let's accept them, let's not be afraid of them, let's break through them.

  Debbi Fields

  Wall, Believe, Glasses

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

  Indra Nooyi

  Helping Others, Glasses, Break Through

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• Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Glasses, Ceilings, Cracks

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Glasses, Ceilings

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• The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

  Heidi Roizen

  Glasses, House, Ceilings

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• Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Educational, Glasses

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Dream, Black History

  The Independent, June 9, 1988.

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• Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

  Jane Harman

  Successful, Men, Glasses

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• Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

  Aretha Franklin

  Glasses, Broken, Ceilings

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• Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Glasses

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• I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Glasses, Ceilings

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• Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

  Helen Clark

  Life, Glasses, Broken

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• Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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• From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it...You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Thinking, Glasses

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Glasses, Trying, Ceilings

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• I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

  Gina Torres

  Glasses, Doors, Ceilings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There are so many people who don't want her to succeed, and they've been doing everything to deny her what is literally her entitlement. And she has still triumphed over it all, the biggest crack in the glass ceiling ever, and it's Mrs. Hillary Clinton.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Glasses, People, Ceilings

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Children, Heart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall.

  Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

  Wall, Glasses, Ceilings

  "For Women In Saudi Arabia, Gender Segregation More Like A 'Glass Wall'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 13, 2015.

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• Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.

  Hillary Clinton

  Glasses, Light, Shining

  "Is it sexist to talk about Hillary Clinton's age?" by David Frum, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2014.

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• My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

  Ronee Blakley

  Girl, Daughter, Fighting

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

  Alex Turner

  Thinking, Glasses, Rocks

  "Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner uses Brit Awards speech to say ‘Rock’n’roll will never die’ – watch". www.nme.com. February 19, 2014.

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