Best Powerful Women Quotes

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

I think powerful women don’t care whether or not they’re liked.

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.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

I love what’s going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

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.

I just sang, recently, for the Prime Minister of Bangladesh – the 34th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. The United Nations had an event where her son got an award and they put me on this special program on competitiveness and sustainability, and we’re talking about doing a world tour of me and the music.

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

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.

I respond to powerful women. I’m not intimidated by that, I like that, it’s not something I shy away from, so I don’t want women who are looking for me to take care of them. To me, that’s a turn-off. I respond to strong, powerful, independent women.

The value we’re all raised with, that women don’t have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality. That if they make the wrong decisions they are ruined for life. That someone more powerful, a man or even a more powerful woman, should be responsible for them. That’s the value animating all of this. It’s incredibly racialized as well.

I’ve noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I’ve watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That’s what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it’s what turning me on.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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

I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

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.

It’s really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.

Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women.

The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.

You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.

A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.

Sometimes a milk mustache is just a milk mustache.

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

Find that person that inspires you.

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.

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

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

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.