Women Power Quotes

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want. ~ T. J. Miller

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.' ~ Melanie Mayron

When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women! ~ Rachel Bilson

At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it all. Her one weakness was the young man sleeping beside her. ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

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

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it. ~ Marlo Thomas

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together. ~ Frank Capra

I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me. ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. ~ Florence Kelley

I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power. ~ Nicole Holofcener

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

The ultimate male tradition is keeping women from sitting at the table of conversation regarding the balance of power between genders. ~ Bryant McGill

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion ... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand. ~ Snoop Dogg

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics. ~ Morgan Fairchild

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening. ~ Felicity Kendal

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power. ~ Rachel Johnson

Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it. ~ Terry Eagleton

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they're not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true - they are still amazing! ~ Monica Bellucci

We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women. ~ Faye Wattleton

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity. ~ Johanna Siguroardottir

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain. ~ Katherine Boo

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself. ~ Anne Bronte

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail. ~ Muhammad Yunus

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. ~ Nawal El Saadawi

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. ~ Gloria Steinem

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it. ~ Ariel Winter

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo. ~ Bella Abzug

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do. ~ Diane Wakoski

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. ~ William Cobbett

Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many councillors. Their involvement in public life and political machinations was such that the Shylonian ambassador was able to report, to his monarch, that the women of the Garvey clique were 'politicians first, homemakers second. ~ A.H. Septimius

Young women, the family unit is forever, and you should do everything in your power to strengthen that unit. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. ~ Ani DiFranco

I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men! ~ Dorothy Stratten

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women. ~ Salman Rushdie

Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life. ~ Rachel Sklar

Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest. ~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities. ~ Yoko Ono

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' ~ Gloria Steinem

The difference between men and women is this
if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of. ~ Deb Baker

Ethan filled his gaze with her, so feminine and fine, with glimmers dancing across her dress and little crystal things sparkling in her hair.
Despite her outward delicacy, there was something remarkably sturdy about her, an unyielding toughness he admired more than she would have believed. The life she'd chosen had come with the never-ending obligation to demonstrate what a woman was and was not, and what a woman could be. People would allow her no room for mistakes or ordinary human frailty. God knew she endured it all far better than Ethan would have. ~ Lisa Kleypas

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion ... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game. ~ Mira Nair

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. ~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. ~ Mary Daly

I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that's a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever. ~ Megan Fox

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women. ~ Carol Roth

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies. ~ Christine Pelosi

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around. ~ Alison Pill

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere. ~ Nawal El Saadawi

She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her? ~ Florence Falk

Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men. ~ Amity Gaige

It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power. ~ Joan Kirner

If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, the fucker will jump right back out. It knows it's wrong, it hurts, it will kill him. But if you put him in a pot and slowly raise it up to boiling, he'll stay. That's what abuse is like. You might not even notice it's happening at first. You'd brush it off as him having a bad day, you pissing him off. But then it starts getting worse in small ways until you're in so deep and you're so hot and your skin is peeling and you don't know if you even remember you can jump anymore. That doesn't make you weak. You got out of that shit, baby. That makes you stronger, a lot stronger, I think, than you even realize. ~ Jessica Gadziala

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently. ~ Lynn Nottage

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~ Samuel Johnson

The Roman Catholic church ... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. ~ Robin Morgan

Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him. ~ Sheri L. Dew

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon. ~ Imelda May

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. ~ Sherman Alexie

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. ~ Margaret Atwood

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. ~ Wilson Mizner

They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power ... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others. ~ Jean Baker Miller

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity. ~ L'Wren Scott

I think it's important as a women to know who you are and what you deserve. We, ourselves set the boundaries of what we choose to accept.
Instead of complaining about the men who's actions don't fit your own & move on and find one that does. ~ Nikki Rowe

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

How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagues
on her coffee break, yet we don't judge a man if he doesn't grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men's rules and conditions? Why did I? ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power - we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again. ~ Sheri L. Dew

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country. ~ Sandra Lee

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. ~ Neil Strauss

When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing. ~ Indra Nooyi

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't. ~ Neil Strauss

These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown. ~ Nikki Rowe

Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films. ~ Vidya Balan

You need to speak up even if the room is full of baritones! ~ Anuranjita Kumar

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning. ~ Nayvadius Cash

People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role. ~ Kate Williams

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that. ~ Jo Brand

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power. ~ Katherine Heigl

Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake. ~ Andrea Jung

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women. ~ Ellen Malcolm

The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge. ~ Narendra Modi

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. ~ Warren Farrell

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

♥♀♥ Do Not Be Afraid Of *WoMen Power*!?! It's That Same ~Power~ That Brought You Into This *Reality*!?! ♥♀♥ ~ Aisare NoMon

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. ~ Sally Quinn

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves. ~ Ann Curry

Don't grant all the prince's requests, darling girl. Men are always asking for more than they should. ~ Sarah Henning

Xander:
It could be witches, some evil witches, which is ridiculous cause witched they were persecuted, women power, love the eatrh, and I'll be over here. ~ Joss Whedon

I have to give a lot of credit to Sandy Weill, because he gets it. He gets the power of the women's contribution to the economy. ~ Lisa Caputo

There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the reproducer of the species. Men feel very weak in front of a woman because a woman is capable of eliciting a number of instincts in a man. And that is what has made men very nervous about women. ~ Gioconda Belli

I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail. ~ Andie MacDowell

I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do. ~ Caitlyn Jenner

I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society. ~ George R R Martin

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented. ~ Stacy Schiff

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. ~ John Mearsheimer

It must be pointed out to the preacher, if he is to cause his people profit and not to embarrass himself with vain joy and presumption, that preaching is a spiritual exercise rather than a vocal one. For, although it is practiced by means of outward words, its power and efficacy reside not in these but in the inward spirit. Wherefore, however lofty be the doctrine that is preached, and however choice the rhetoric and sublime the style wherein it is clothed, it brings as a rule no more benefit than is present in the spirit of the preacher. ~ Juan De La Cruz

An army equal to its enemy in fighting power but 50 per cent more mobile can do what it pleases with its enemy. ~ Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan

The power in each individual comes from all of us, and the power of all of us comes from each individual. ~ Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

' Bout time you married someone and stopped tempting every man from here to the Blue Sea," Padera said, slurring the words through toothless gums. "You know, wars have started over women like you."
Moya scoffed. "You're so full of crap, old woman."
"Brin?" Padera called.
Brin tore her eyes away from the doorway. "Augusta of Melen, daughter of Chieftain Eisol, started the Battle of the Red River when she refused to marry Theo of Warric. When Theo's father was killed in the fight, Theo vowed vengeance and summoned all of Clan Warric to his banner. This resulted in what became known as the Ten Year War, which claimed the lives of a thousand men and instigated a famine that lasted two years. ~ Michael J. Sullivan