Corporate Women Quotes

What I wish I knew when I asked for a raise in my twenties:
- Remember: the world is not going to end if you get "no" for an answer
- You have succeeded before
- Be confident and keep it positive
- Stop waiting for the perfect moment
- Use "no" to fuel your next steps ~ Fran Hauser

Common Speech Weakners:
- Voicing an opinion by saying, "I might be wrong about this, but...." By starting your sentence this way, you are discrediting your own idea before you even say it.
- Failing to take ownership of your idea by saying "I feel" instead of "I know".
- Making an assertion into a question by raising your voice at the end of your sentence.
- Shrugging or loking down when speaking. This kind of body language makes us seem less confident and capable.
- Communicating a lack of commitment to our statements by allowing our voice to rail off at the end of our sentence. ~ Fran Hauser

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

There are also men in the world. Sometimes we forget, and think there are only women - endless hills and plains of unresisting women. We make little jokes and comfort each other and our lives pass quickly. But every now and then, it is true, a man rises unexpectedly in our midst like a pine tree, and looks savagely at us, and sends us hobbling away in great floods to hide in the caves and gullies until he is gone. ~ Lydia Davis

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista. ~ Thalia

You independent women these days don't need to play by the old rules anymore. Embrace it. Chase your man. But be sensible.' (Daisy's Nanna, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 400) ~ Danielle Weiler

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind. ~ Johnny Ramistella

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest. ~ Frederic Farrar

There is no singular meaning of wife. That is the point. That is its meaning. To see the wife fully through a multi-faceted lens is one of the central challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. To do this, new scripts are required that employ wife as a verb and as a gender-neutral concept. These are essential if we are to create necessary new narratives, new ways of living as women and men together. ~ Anne Kingston

This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence. ~ Dave Zirin

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully. ~ China Machado

This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing. ~ Kate Atkinson

Before there were books, we read each other. ~ Lisa Cron

Do you always play this hard to get?"
"I wish I could afford to play hard to get. You women have wised up a lot in the last decade or so. None of my old lines work anymore."
"You mean 'wanna get naked' doesn't have women falling all over you?"
Mac peered at her over the top of the menu.
"Hey, that's my best one."
"I'd hate to hear your worst."
Yeah, you would. He set the menu down and leaned in as though about to say something confidential. "I crash and burn a lot."
Mac and Rachel. ~ Suzie Quint

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow. ~ George Macaulay Trevelyan

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation. ~ Margaret Mead

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign. ~ H.L. Mencken

Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world. ~ Bryant McGill

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women. ~ Whitney Cummings

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people. ~ Joan D. Chittister

We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. Its time to take ownership in our success. ~ Tory Burch

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. ~ Honore De Balzac

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today. ~ Beth Moore

If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans ... ~ Julianna Baggott

Babies being "given" to women as gifts makes the women sound powerless. ~ Caitlin Moran

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord. ~ Joseph Addison

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are ... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage. ~ Martin Luther

Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan ~ Alexandre Dumas

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first. ~ Shannon L. Alder

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman,
don't worry, there is still time ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

This is rape's legacy, the countless deaths women die just trying to keep existing in the world as it is. ~ Roxane Gay