Professional Woman Quotes

#1. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

#2. I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

Claire Bloom

#3. I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

Dan Quayle

#4. Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.

Stephie Davis

#5. The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#6. Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

Angie Dickinson

#7. When I was in high school, even in college, I didn't have any real image of a career woman or a professional woman.

Betty Friedan

#8. Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

Bell Hooks

#9. He wasn't a man who was threatened by a woman's success. He was a man who not only respected it, but was thoroughly turned on by it. Nothing aroused him more than a professional woman with an alpha personality. A woman who was an alpha in business and a sub in bed was beyond sexy.

Suzanne Steele

#10. At the end of the day I'm just Linda, and Linda is a single professional woman, and a lot of women can relate to what I talk about.

Linda Sanchez

#11. Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Camille Paglia

#12. She spent a lot of time letting people see only what she wanted them to - a hardworking professional woman on top of her game. And yet somehow in a matter of days she'd revealed herself to him, letting him see someone else entirely. The real her, maybe.

Jill Shalvis

#13. I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

Charles Cumming

#14. When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Carol Roth

#15. I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Madeleine Albright

#16. Technology is a tough realm to navigate as a younger woman who is not married. It can be hard to cultivate professional relationships because you have to be conscious of how to engage potential investors.

Leila Janah

#17. A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#18. Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

Misty Copeland

#19. When a woman tells me she loves my dresses. These women have nothing to gain to tell you that they love your dresses. A lot of professional women admit dressing for work previously was such a challenge. It's these moments for me that are so rewarding.

Sarah Lafleur

#20. As a leader, there are professional skills and traits that are expected. It's your job to identify and exhibit them so you can be challenged and judged professionally as a leader - and not as a woman.

Liz Weber

#21. The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Candace Bushnell

#22. I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.

Maria Conchita Alonso

#23. Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.

Lauren London

#24. I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over. Cause if a woman falls over wearing heels, that's embarrassing. But if a bloke falls over wearing heels, you have to kill yourself. It's the end of your life.

Eddie Izzard

#25. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Segolene Royal

#26. Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think woman acted only after 1969.

Mick LaSalle

#27. So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there who has ever felt more like a professional juggler than a politician, you are our best hope! Run sister, run.

Nicolle Wallace

#28. I think I'm very blessed to have been raised by so many intelligent and impressive women, and now continuing that on a professional level, having people like Sarah and Nadia to guide me through this new phase of my career, is extremely significant.

Zayn Malik

#29. Working with Katie Cassidy is amazing ... That woman is so prepared and so professional and talented, it's such a joy to show up with her to work with her everyday.

Katrina Law

#30. I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Kate Chopin

#31. Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

Casey Stengel

#32. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#33. It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany ... Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status.

Hannah Hoch

#34. In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man's world, I'm really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I'm willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

Cher