The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for ...
I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
I have to give a lot of credit to Sandy Weill, because he gets it. He gets the power of the women's contribution to the economy.
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesti...
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a...
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani ext...
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a w...
Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power - we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again.
Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understan...
Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.
