Female Heads Of Government
This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed as head of government of their respective countries. This list does not include female heads of state, with the exception of leaders of presidential republics.
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“In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.”
—Estelle R. Ramey (b. 1917)
“How many women ... waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)