Women Are Powerful Quotes

#1. Women are powerful and dangerous.

Audre Lorde

#2. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.

Christina Dodd

#3. When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

#4. The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#5. I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

Rashida Jones

#6. The women are threatening, because, among other reasons, they are not virgins. The sexual experience that nationalist soldiers sense in them seems to release a particularly powerful fear. That fear is brought into association with the word communist

Anonymous

#7. 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

#8. That occurs everywhere, unfortunately. Powerful, smart women who make it to the end sometimes are not seen as the same charismatic likable guys.

Allison Grodner

#9. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

Eve Best

#10. I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.

Stana Katic

#11. Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words.
"That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

Melina Marchetta

#12. The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.

Germaine Greer

#13. If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Liya Kebede

#14. I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Dorothy Stratten

#15. Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific

Louise Burfitt-Dons

#16. Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

Hanna Rosin

#17. The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

Kathleen Turner

#18. As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

Hanna Rosin

#19. We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles.

Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

#20. Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

Sheryl Sandberg

#21. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

Amber Heard

#22. Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

Katha Pollitt

#23. Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

Lykke Li

#24. We women are a lot more powerful if we see ourselves as fighters on the same side. But it's easier to judge others - their choices and their bodies - than to think about the struggles we share.

Crystal Renn

#25. 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

#26. Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality of the men's sense that they are more important than women, as a group.

Anita Hill

#27. Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

Naomi Wolf

#28. Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#29. It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

Anna Wintour

#30. Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

Robi Ludwig

#31. If we are to be women in power, then it must be power on very different terms. we have to find a new source of energy. New structures of power. Ones that don't deplete us or our environment. We need to run our lives on sustainable energy.

Lucy H. Pearce

#32. I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.

Jessica Valenti

#33. Overall women in our society are forgetting the value and power of sisterhood. Renewed feminist movement must once again raise the banner high to proclaim anew Sistehood is powerful.

Bell Hooks

#34. I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.

Zendaya

#35. People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

Kate Williams

#36. I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

Whitney Cummings

#37. I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

Bat For Lashes

#38. There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

Laura Bush

#39. Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

Monica Seles

#40. I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.

Courtney Love

#41. For sad if obvious reasons, women (especially white women who are seduced by access to the powerful) are the only discriminated-against group whose members seem to think that, if they don't take themselves seriously, someone else will.

Gloria Steinem

#42. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.19

Sheryl Sandberg

#43. I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

Lubna Olayan

#44. [Her message to women and girls of the world] You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power
not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.

Jennifer Beals

#45. As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies are uncovered and made more vulnerable. Thus, as women gain power, they are disempowered in another way.

Nick Yee

#46. As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

Steven Pressfield

#47. There are not many relationships more powerful than that of two women who fall fast and deep into a friendship. It was heartbreaking to be loved and left.

Mindy Kaling

#48. Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

Cate Tiernan

#49. Women don't realize how powerful they are.

Judith Light

#50. I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.

Bobbi Brown

#51. We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

Stefano Gabbana

#52. Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Honore De Balzac

#53. I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#54. I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Idina Menzel

#55. Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

Henry Makow

#56. High school is not unlike a Mormon fundamentalist cult where the women are claimed by the older and more powerful.

Mike Birbiglia

#57. There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

Frederick Lenz

#58. Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are.

Kelly Cutrone

#59. There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. By no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.

Sundar Pichai

#60. Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.

Sheryl Sandberg

#61. I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

Emma Watson

#62. Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy

Bill Gates

#63. Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

Naomie Harris

#64. You are more powerful than you think.

Tim Cook

#65. Women, when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, must be the most powerful creatures in the world.

Isak Denisen

#66. Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#67. Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

Frederick Lenz

#68. [On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

Andrea Mitchell

#69. I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

Melinda Clarke

#70. Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

Alanis Morissette

#71. Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Joss Whedon

#72. I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

Shannon L. Alder

#73. Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Les Dawson

#74. To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.

Barack Obama

#75. Women are attracted to artists, of course, as they are to doctors and prisoners on death row. The powerful and the vulnerable. If you want to continue to get laid, particularly as you get older, that's where to head, boy.

Hanif Kureishi

#76. Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are

Bobbi Brown

#77. With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

Kavita Ramdas

#78. 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

#79. I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with.

Brandon Villasenor

#80. That's how powerful you are, girl ... You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

Walter Mosley

#81. Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

Karen Armstrong

#82. The total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.

Marsden Wagner

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

Judith Light

#84. The more connected you are to the work, the better it is.

Jesse Peyronel

#85. I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.

Alber Elbaz

#86. Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

Madonna Ciccone

#87. I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

Samina Baig

#88. Silent or gagged women are powerless women. A powerful woman is one who can speak out to challenge existing power structures or to explore previously taboo territory.

Julian Barnes

#89. I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

#90. The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they took the risk to dishonor their own. They are so anxious to save themselves that they thought they should throw her aside.

Philippa Gregory

#91. There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

Dave Eggers