Powerful Women Quotes - Page 7

• I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Powerful, Ambition, Trying

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• My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

  Indra Nooyi

  Powerful, Father, Doe

  "The Best Advice I Ever Got: Indra Nooyi". archive.fortune.com. August 04, 2008.

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• If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it

  Genevieve Bell

  Powerful, World, Ifs

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• As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

  Dorothy Parker

  Morning, Powerful, Landlord

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

  Josephine Baker

  Powerful, School, Gun

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• I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Powerful, Men, Rights

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.117

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• There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

  Chien-Shiung Wu

  Powerful, Dirty, Home

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• Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.

  Taylor Swift

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

  Sally Kohn

  Powerful, Gold, Appearance

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• Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, Motivation, Powerful

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• My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I'm worth. You can't be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you.

  Rachel Sklar

  Powerful, Support You, Who I Am

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• And you yourself are recognizing that you are in 'relationship with a beautiful and powerful woman and we both definitely don't want to surrender to each other'.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Beautiful, Powerful

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• I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Mother, Powerful, Father

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• It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

  Misty Copeland

  Strong, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: bknation.org

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• I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.270, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

  Anna Wintour

  Powerful, Men, Way

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• B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Powerful, Creativity, Reflection

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• In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You’re going to want to read this.

  Terry Fallis

  Powerful, Real, Two

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• Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Powerful, Egypt

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• Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mom, New York, Powerful

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• In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Powerful, Video

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• I'll take care of my mother," he said grimly. "I love her, but she doesn't run my life." "Yeah, that's what we all say. You. Me. Lucy." She stabbed the stick into the dirt. "These are powerful women. They're sane, they're smart, they rule their worlds, and they love us ferociously. A potent combination that makes it touch to pretend they're normal mothers.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Running, Powerful

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• Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah ... But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.

  David Letterman

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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• For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

  Julie Andrews

  Powerful, Lasts, Vests

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• Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

  Neil Strauss

  Powerful, Hate, Guy

  "Pickup artist Neil Strauss". Interview with Clarisse Thorn, www.timeout.com. March 23, 2011.

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