Powerful Women Quotes - Page 6

• In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Order, Voice, Demand

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• I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

  Jeannette Rankin

  May, Lasts, Firsts

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• If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  War, Law, Practice

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• Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Men, Guy

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.

  Erin Heatherton

  Mother, Strong Women, Powerful

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• Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Women, Sisterhood

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• Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Powerful

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• Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.

  Lance Henriksen

  Powerful, Guy, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos.

  Jodie Marsh

  Powerful, Men, Ego

  "60 SECONDS: Jodie Marsh". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. February 28, 2007.

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• I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

  Christie Hefner

  Powerful, Men, Progressive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Powerful, Target, Threat

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• Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Law, Helping, Trust Me

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Powerful, Murder

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• Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

  Susan Estrich

  Powerful, Men, Way

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  A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Powerful, Want, Tough

  "Watch The Making Of Jennifer Lawrence's 'Be Dior' Campaign" by Chrissy Mahlmeister, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2014.

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• It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

  Christina Aguilera

  Powerful, Fuzzy, Warm

  "Christina Aguilera Dismisses Tabloid 'Trash,' Calls Simon Cowell a 'Dick' at Industry Event" by Ryan Downey, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 25, 2012.

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

  Lynda Lee-Potter

  Powerful, Husband, Men

  1984 In the Daily Mail,16 May.

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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Powerful, Husband, Three

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• Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

  Susan Cheever

  Powerful, Years, Looks

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• I've always been an admirer of women who walk the line of being very feminine and powerful at the same time. That has always been my archetype because too many powerful women, I fend intimidating and frightening, and I never want to scare anybody. I want to be warm and cuddly and yet, powerful at the same time.

  Doreen Virtue

  Powerful, Scare, Lines

  "Doreen Virtue: the oil spill". Interview with Susan Gregg, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.

  Nicki Minaj

  Powerful, Doe, Records

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• Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

  Naomie Harris

  Powerful, Play, Interesting

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They all played heroines and were strong, powerful women, yet they were very feminine.

  Erdem Moral?oglu

  Strong, Powerful, Age

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

  Joss Whedon

  Powerful, Men, Messages

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