Quotes on Powerful Women

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

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.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

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

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

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

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.