Talented Women Quotes

#1. I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

Heather Burns

#2. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.

Eleanor Smeal

#3. With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Glenn Close

#4. Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception, the talented men I have known believed they had more.

Gregory Petsko

#5. I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.

M. Ward

#6. I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.

Sara Bareilles

#7. Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

Peter Bogdanovich

#8. Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

Amy Poehler

#9. In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#10. Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

Marcus Buckingham

#11. It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

Karen Essex

#12. Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Joyce Brothers

#13. Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that business needs most to tap human potential.

Mary Cunningham Agee

#14. French cinema allows women to look ... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

Gina Bellman

#15. Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Melanne Verveer

#16. These women are talented and gifted, fearless yet honoring, connected yet self-contained, present yet far reaching, compassionate yet fierce, pure but not naive, strong and gentle, simple yet highly strategic.

Lisa Bevere

#17. What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out.

Siren Waroe

#18. We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily changed to accommodate the reality of their lives.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#19. Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Roth

#20. I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

Mindy Kaling

#21. I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

Junot Diaz

#22. Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Ruth Porat

#23. Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

Jami Attenberg

#24. I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.

Eva Mendes

#25. As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decision. Am I truly less talented, less audacious, less erudite, less brave than my more quote-unquote literary colleagues?

Jillian Medoff

#26. Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented they were ... Any aspiring journalist who was interviewed for a job was told, If you want to be a writer, go somewhere else
women don't write at Newsweek.

Lynn Povich

#27. I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

Alice Sebold

#28. I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

Bar Paly

#29. I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

Sidney Sheldon

#30. Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart

Sarah Strohmeyer

#32. When it comes to scrapes, I'm what you might call a talented amateur. But I've gotten a good look at that women in and out of that fancy mechanical shell she wears. She's a pro. We're not playing the same sport.

James S.A. Corey

#33. I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort.

Marie Calloway