Powerful Women Quotes - Page 5

• You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

  Joan Didion

  Commitment, Walks, Picks

  Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.256, Vintage

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• Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

  Aja Naomi King

  Powerful, Character, Female

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it, to stretch it, to take risks with my words. And I don't think I'm alone. I think the most powerful women among us struggle with how to use their voice. Because I think what every woman knows, is that when she speaks her truth she is at risk - whether it's Hillary Clinton or a rural woman in Rwanda.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Powerful, Struggle, Thinking

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• The value we're all raised with, that women don't have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality. That if they make the wrong decisions they are ruined for life. That someone more powerful, a man or even a more powerful woman, should be responsible for them. That's the value animating all of this. It's incredibly racialized as well.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Powerful, Men, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think if you were to talk to women who have run, both successfully and unsuccessfully, nearly all of them would say, "You learn so much." You learn about yourself, what you're capable of doing.... And it doesn't have to all happen when you're young - I mean, one of the most powerful women in American politics is Nancy Pelosi. She had five children. She didn't go into politics until her youngest child was in high school.... That's one of the great things about being a woman in today's world: You have a much longer potential work life than our mothers or our grandmothers did.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Running, Children

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• We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a malnourished nation that part of the founding of the welfare state were public health initiatives. Every little schoolchild got milk. Mrs. Thatcher stopped it. They called her "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher."

  Hilary Mantel

  Powerful, Children, War

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.

  Tama Janowitz

  Powerful, Thinking, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

  Ginni Rometty

  Believe, Firsts, Clients

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• The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Inspirational, Change, Business

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• I respond to powerful women. I'm not intimidated by that, I like that, it's not something I shy away from, so I don't want women who are looking for me to take care of them. To me, that's a turn-off. I respond to strong, powerful, independent women.

  Mike Colter

  Strong, Powerful, Independent

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Powerful, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, August 18, 2016.

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• Powerful women scare men. I think that when you're mature, you are powerful. And that's what makes you beautiful. So until we're able to see women as beautiful because they're strong, we're gonna have problems.

  Andie MacDowell

  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Success, Running

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Powerful

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My fitness inspiration has always been athletes, my whole life. Serena Williams is a great friend of mine and Ronda Rousey - we did Sports Illustrated together. Obviously, following powerful women and seeing their bodies and how hard they work is really inspiring to me.

  Gigi Hadid

  Sports, Powerful, Inspiration

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

  Kathy Bates

  Stars, Powerful, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Views, Succeed, Belief

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• I just sang, recently, for the Prime Minister of Bangladesh - the 34th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. The United Nations had an event where her son got an award and they put me on this special program on competitiveness and sustainability, and we're talking about doing a world tour of me and the music.

  Robert Davi

  Powerful, Son, Talking

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Children, Powerful

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• I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."

  Amanda Palmer

  Crush, Powerful, Compassion

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

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• I think Ivanka Trump she has this power and powerful women are reaching out to her and she needs to take advantage of that.

  Paula Broadwell

  Powerful, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mother, Powerful, Firsts

  "Exclusive Jungle Book Interview: Lupita Nyong'o and Giancarlo Esposito". Interview With Stella Girard, www.debtfreespending.com. April 12, 2016.

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• There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Order, People

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

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• Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

  Grace Hopper

  Change, Education, Running

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• 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

  Country, Men, Law

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