Best Powerful Women Quotes

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

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

Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don’t exist.

I’m surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

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!

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Powerful women scare men. I think that when you’re mature, you are powerful. And that’s what makes you beautiful. So until we’re able to see women as beautiful because they’re strong, we’re gonna have problems.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated. There’s no push to be one thing or another thing. It’s all human. That’s what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

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

Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn’t like feeling threatening, I didn’t want to feel threatened, I didn’t want to feel like I was towering over anybody.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

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.

There’s nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there’s nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It’s so threatening to people, to women as well, and it’s threatening the order of things.

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.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.