Powerful Women Quotes - Page 8

• In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.

  Ginni Rometty

  Jobs, Powerful, Important

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  It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Luxury, Nurse

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.
  I cannot do everything,
  But still I can do something;
  And because I cannot do everything,
  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Single

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sexy, Powerful, Thinking

  "Golden Globe Awards 2015 Live Updates: Winners, Best Moments, Speeches, Photos And More". Maggie Gyllenhaal's Golden Globe speech for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie Award, www.ibtimes.com. January 11, 2015.

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• Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

  Tina Brown

  Powerful, Unrequited Love, Hostility

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• Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Jobs, Powerful

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• Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

  Lucy Stone

  Powerful, Too Much, Spheres

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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• If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Race, Gender

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• The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

  Frances Perkins

  Doors, Long, Might

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• Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

  Virginia Woolf

  Creativity, Order, Creative

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Independent, Doe

  Woman and the New Race ch. 8 (1920)

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• A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mind, Important, Novelists

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• Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

  Donatella Versace

  Powerful, Men, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Believe, Heart

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• Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, Powerful, Real

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Equality, White

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

  Judith Light

  Powerful, Positivity, Victim

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• Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Strong Women, Powerful, Needs

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  We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Passion, Ambition, Goal

  "Sandberg: Speak up, believe in yourself, take risks" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2013.

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