Looking for inspirational quotes about breaking the glass ceiling? We have rounded up the best collection of glass ceiling quotes, sayings, captions for Instagram, Status messages, (with images and pictures, memes) by famous woman who are successful in their fields to motivate you to break the barriers created by men.
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Glass Ceiling Meaning:
It is a colloquial term for the social barrier preventing women from being promoted to top jobs in management. Breaking the glass ceiling means overcoming the barriers set to prevent access to advancement.
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The glass ceiling is a popular metaphor for explaining the inability of many women to advance past a certain point in their occupations and professions, regardless of their qualifications or achievements.
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Glass Ceiling Quotes
- “The glass ceiling is now my floor.” — Unknown
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“Glass ceilings are meant to be broken.” — Unknown
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“Ever ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor.” — Aldous Huxley
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“I didn’t come to polish your glass ceilings. I came to break them.” — Unknown
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“I don’t do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.” — Kathryn Bigelow
- “Break through that imaginary ceiling you’ve placed over yourself.” — Unknown
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“Don’t try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.” — Priyanka Chopra
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“Ladies make sure to wear shoes there’s glass everywhere.” — Kamala Harris
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“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” — Max Depree
- “Don’t aim to break the glass ceiling; aim to shatter it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
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“Break the glass ceiling around you and explore the world in a different sight.” — Unknown
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“There is no glass ceiling; it’s really just a thick layer of men.” — Laura A. Liswood
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“The glass ceiling gets more pliable when you turn up the heat.” — Pauline R. Kezer
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“I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.” — Andrew Cuomo
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“Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.” — Madeleine Albright
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“The glass ceiling doesn’t apply when you’re building your own house.” — Heidi Roizen
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“In the future there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” — Sheryl Sandberg
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“So if you see a glass ceiling, know that it’s only there so you can shatter it.” — Justin Baldoni
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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
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“We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.” — Jesse Jackson
- “When you break through a glass ceiling, you’re going to get cut, and it’s going to hurt.” — Kamala Harris
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“The power I exert on the court depends on my arguments, not on my gender.” — Sandra Day O’ Connor
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“When one person breaks the glass ceiling, the light shines through and others can go.” — Elaine Marshall
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“The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.” — Indra Nooyi
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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
- “Breaking the glass ceiling and carefully recycling all the shattered glass because that’s how we roll.” — Unknown
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“Teach your daughter to worry less about fitting into glass slippers and more about shattering glass ceilings.” — Unknown
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“Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.” — Jane Harman
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“What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters.” — Kamala Harris
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“Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they’re now more and more in the power seats.” — Aretha Franklin
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“I raise up my voice not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” — Malaya Yousafzai
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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
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“I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.” — Drew Gilpin Faust, President Harvard University
- “No glass ceiling was ever shattered by a whiner.” — Melanie Hope, Book: “Get Over It & Get Started: Self help with a spine!”
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“Ambition is a word associated with women negatively. People say, ‘she’s too ambitious.’ Why is that a bad thing?” — Priyanka Chopra
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“My dad always said. Don’t fit into the glass slipper like Cinderella did. Shatter the glass ceiling. Be whoever you want.” — Priyanka Chopra
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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
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“The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.” — Hilda Solis
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“Society’s limit on achievement is the glass ceiling that gives a resting point for those who fail to have their achievements defined by others.” — Calum Ross
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“My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the ‘glass ceiling’ to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change…” — Elizabeth Dole
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“Now I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but someday someone will, and hopefully sooner than we might think right now.” — Hillary Clinton
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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
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“Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women’s issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.” — James Rozoff
- “Shattering glass ceilings is not easy, you need to work hard, day after day, facing disappointments, embracing tiny moments of happiness, only to be challenged and questioned, again and again. ” — Sarba Roy
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“We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us. Ensure our daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and so remaining ceilings to shatter.” — Barack Obama
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“There are mountains growing beneath our feet that cannot be contained all we’ve endured has prepared us for this, bring your hammers and fists, we have a glass ceiling to shatter. Let’s leave this place roofless.” — Rupi Kaur
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“I just don’t think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it’s dark, accentuate the darkness.” — David Bromstad
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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
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“I think we’ve broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our “glass ceiling” that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we’ve proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.” — Miesha Tate
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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
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“There are so many people who don’t 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
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“We’re going to school for higher education in higher numbers, but the numbers still show we’re not breaking though the glass ceiling. For every Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton there are millions of women stuck in cement on the floor that are not getting up.” — Carolyn Maloney
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“We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can’t headline a movie because black women don’t translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it’s everything that people don’t see out there.” — Viola Davis
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“There is no “glass ceiling” when it comes to happiness; no limit whatsoever. No matter how happy you are, you can always add to your happiness. So ask yourself right here and now: What would make me even happier right now? What would make this moment even better? And do that!” — Teal Swan
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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
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“As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.” — Alice Walker
Origin of The Term Glass Ceiling?
Marilyn Loden coined the phrase ‘glass ceiling‘ at a 1978 Women’s Exposition. Women make up 55.9% of the labor force in the U.S but hold only 29.9% of executive positions. To address the glass ceiling, the U.S. Department of Labor launched the Glass Ceiling Commission in 1991
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