Leadership Women Quotes

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami. ~ Iveta Radicova

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again. ~ Harriet Harman

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I have made so many mistakes..
Wondering if I can now call myself an 'Expert'! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. ~ Mike Quigley

We are brainwashed about a Woman's beauty...So true!
Majority of women have succumbed to men's and media's idea of beauty which is nothing but a 'commercial farce ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth. ~ Barbara Kellerman

Work does not mean 'What We Get' but 'What we Become' in the process ! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother. ~ Maureen Chiquet

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization. ~ Gwen Moore

I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family. ~ Margaret Hamburg

Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resources-they're waiting to put their resources on the table to be able to lead towards a different world ~ Kavita Ramdya

Breaking rules and piercing myths..just a matter of mind and time.. ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations. ~ Barbara Kellerman

WOMEN..get the word 'Compromise' out of your lives..You are a 'Value Driver'..Be proud of that ! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever. ~ Mary McGrory

Mistakes are not be apologized for each time..
That is a matter of choice in conscience or principles..
Instead mistakes need to be corrected each time..
There is no choice when it is about correction..treat it as an absolute! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

When we PEEL off LAYERS of SOCIAL CONDITIONING and the need to live upto that EXPECTATION..
The most beautiful 'creation' surfaces ...The REAL YOU !!!
To be real, it needs courage..Our biggest aim should be to build that COURAGE..
Being 'that' REAL is our biggest POSSIBILITY...also the biggest RESPONSIBILITY! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. ~ Rosalyn S. Yalow

Are Human Problems insoluble? Human Chaos necessary?? Answer: Personally I refuse to have problems! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world. ~ Zainab Salbi

As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change. ~ Tabby Biddle

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt. ~ Michelle Bachelet

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me. ~ Madeleine Albright

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation. ~ Bonnie Marcus

Bravery cannot be taught..
It needs to be tried, practised and tested..
In Self! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership. ~ Ann Cotton

Anyone's World can ONLY be as good, bad or BIG as their IMAGINATION...!
Nothing less, nothing more..! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded. ~ Bonnie Marcus

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk. ~ Jennifer Doudna

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. ~ James Dobson

Entrepreneurs stand out from the rest of the pack because they are not afraid to take big risks and they aim to please no one except the people who truly matter. ~ Kathryn Finney

Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes. ~ Maureen Chiquet

When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting. ~ Tabby Biddle

When we allow IRRELEVANCE to clog our minds...we are taking energy away from the RELEVANT! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa. ~ Ann Cotton

I have said it loud and clear: Beware, men, lest women deprive you of all the leadership positions in the country. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles. ~ Julia Stiles

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful. ~ Margaret Hamburg

Two decades of observing human nature have revealed a few notable differences between the way men and women approach conflict: men will knock each other out and then hug it out, while women tend to leave deep, unresolved scars on the souls of their victims. ~ Scott Stambach

men and women perform a different sexual calculus. As Harper's put it perfectly: "Women are inclined to regret the sex they had, and men the sex they didn't. ~ Christian Rudder

There is a certain irony here, because many of the first werewolves to be outed in society from the 16th through the 18th centuries were actually women. Just as our American ancestors had their Salem Witch Trials, Europe had its Werewolf Trials, and a large number of the so-called "werewolves" tortured and burned at the stake were female. […] In the 17th-century werewolf trials of Estonia, women were about 150 percent more likely to be accused of lycanthropy; however, they were about 100 percent less likely to be remembered for it."

"Here's also a pronounced lack of female werewolves in popular culture. Their near absence in literature and film is explained away by various fancies: they're sterile, an aberration, or - most galling of all - they don't even exist.Their omission from popular culture does one thing very effectively: It prevents us, and men especially, from being confronted by hairy, ugly, uncontrollable women. Shapeshifting women in fantasy stories tend to transform into animals that we consider feminine, such as cats or birds, which are pretty and dainty, and occasionally slick and wicked serpents. But because the werewolf represents traits that are accepted as masculine - strength, large size, violence, and hirsutism - we tend to think of the werewolf as being naturally male. The female werewolf is disturbing because she entirely breaks the rules of femininity. ~ Julia Oldham

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. ~ Roberto Cavalli

You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared - ~ Jack Kerouac

The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased. ~ Claire A. Murray

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. ~ Hanna Rosin

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame. ~ Cherie Blair

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women. ~ Nick Stahl

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food. ~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before. ~ Petra Kelly

Beyond our physical touch, the breasts of these screen actresses incite our imaginations to explore and reshape them. The bodies of these extraordinary women form a kit of spare parts, a set of mental mannequins that resemble Bellmer's obscene dolls. As they tease us, so we begin to dismantle them, removing sections of a smile, a leg stance, an enticing cleavage. The parts are interchangeable, like the operations we imagine performing on these untouchable women, as endlessly variable as the colours silkscreened on to the faces of Warhol's Liz and Marilyn. ~ J.G. Ballard

But women are awful for the same reason men are awful: limited scope. ~ Carlene Bauer

A young woman faces the decision of whether to marry a certain man whom she loves but who has deeply rooted, traditional ideas concerning marriage, family life, and the roles of men and women in each. A sober assessment of her future tell the woman that each of the two alternatives offers real but contrasting goods. One life offers the possibility of a greater degree of personal independence, the chance to pursue a career, perhaps more risk and adventure, while the other offers the rewards of parenting, stability, and a life together with a man whom, after all, she is in love with. In order to choose in a self-determined mode the woman must realize that the decision she faces involves more than the choice between two particular actions; it is also a choice between two distinct identities. In posing the questions "Who am I? Which of the two lives is really me?" she asks herself not a factual question about her identity but a fundamental practical question about the relative values of distinct and incommensurable goods. The point I take to be implicit in Tugendhat's (and Fichte's) view of the practical subject is that it would be mistaken to suppose that the woman had at her disposal an already established hierarchy of values that she must simply consult in order to decide whether to marry. Rather, her decision, if self-determined, must proceed from a ranking of values that emerges only in the process of reflecting upon the kind of person she wants to be. ~ Frederick Neuhouser

Now, now. Southern ladies don't French-kiss and tell. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

When it rains, it pours but that isn't a bad thing. Take advantage of the rain as it washes away all of the residues that the side effects left behind. As you confront your side effects, walk with pride, do not turn back, face them head-on. Nothing can faze you now because the rain is clearing your path. After the rain has washed away the side effects, their powers are watered down. Therefore, they can no longer interrupt your peace, kill your joy or steal your happiness.
The side effects' time has expired. It is time to put an end once and for all to carrying everyone's dirty load. Leave them where they lie. Let them figure out their own messes and bad decisions.
Take a breather and let it go. I bet the load is so much lighter! ~ Charlena E. Jackson

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Someday hopefully it won't be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we've come ... someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly. ~ Sigourney Weaver

If we take into account that women have had the right to vote only for some 100 years - in some countries even less - and that we have already won seats in governments or presidential offices, I understand that men look at this rise with some anxiety. ~ Dalia Grybauskaite

Growth in awareness has always been painful [...] But it does lead to greater independence and, eventually, cooperation in action. For the enormous problems that face the world today, in both the private and public sphere, cannot be solved by women - and men - alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

They [heterosexual cis women] are accepted in the straight mainstream way more readily than I [trans woman] will ever be. But they are marginalized in their day-to-day lives because they are feminine. To argue that they are reinforcing the binary, or the patriarchy or the hegemonic gender system, because they are conventional feminine (as opposed to subversively feminine) essentially implies that they are enabling their own oppression. This is just another variation of the claim that rapists make when they insinuate that the woman in question was 'asking for it' because of what she was wearing or how she behaved. ~ Julia Serano

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me. ~ Dana Torres

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase. ~ Jesse Jackson

The summer dresses are unpacked and hanging in the closet, two of them, pure cotton, which is better than synthetics like the cheaper ones, though even so, when it's muggy, in July and August, you sweat inside them. No worry about sunburn though, said Aunt Lydia. The spectacles women used to make of themselves. Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder those things used to happen. [...] And not good for the complexion, not at all, wrinkle you up like a dried apple. But we weren't supposed to care about our complexions any more, she'd forgotten that. ~ Margaret Atwood

Nature will unapologetically weed your genes out of existence if you don't take action and learn how to attract women now.
Do I have your attention? ~ Mystery

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone ~ Ernest Hemingway,

A woman from the audience asks: 'Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?' and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: "There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the '50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up. ~ Stephen Scobie

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do. ~ Ellen Gilchrist

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money. ~ Naomi Wolf

I talk to a lot of women who have difficult times who are suffering. I really want women to be encouraged and to have hope because things can get better. Make good decisions, stop making bad ones, because we have to take responsibility too. But make good decisions and really the future will be a lot better for your kids - and yourself. ~ Michele Bachmann

Apparently, all men were the same. It was like God had given them different faces just so that women would be able to tell them apart. ~ Rajaa Alsanea

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration. ~ Emily Eden

You never find yourself until you face the truth. ~ Pearl Bailey

She had spent so much time worrying that accepting love, becoming part of all the love stories, would trap her in some way, change her into someone weak, someone she did not want to be. But she realized now that she had been narrow - minded, considering a love story as a lesser story, a story that might make her lesser to be part of. She had always thought she needed to be in control, but now she found she did not want to put any limits on herself at all. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests. ~ John W. Gardner

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. ~ Oscar Wilde

The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be. ~ John Eldredge

Whew," he said. "You clean up good. You don't look like the same girl."
She frowned right before she laughed. "Do women usually thank you for saying things like that? ~ Robyn Carr

If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go. ~ S.E. Hinton

When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Success is not a probability visiting us once in a while..Success is a HABIT which can be acquired, cultivated, polished, practised and achieved on a daily basis ! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee