Powerful Women Quotes - Page 6

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

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Powerful, Husband, Three

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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