Women In Power Quotes

“Almost all the United Commonwealth presidents have been female. It has been argued that women are less aggressive, more maternal, and thus more focused on the well-being of the country's people. Less focused on politics or power.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, Independent Study

“A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“We are diamonds in the rough
Through the thrust and toil, we come out strong
We are the breath of the earth,
Our wombs tell of humanity's birth
We are seeds splattered on putrid soils
Still we sprout, through every storm
We are not here to survive,
We are here to live...
Inward and outward
In the incandescence of our existence
Yes, our voices may sometimes be broken
But our spirit remains indestructible.
We are women, unapologetically!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“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, Burning Woman

“One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.”
― Jacinda Ardern

“Women belong in all places where... F*** it! Women belong. Period.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“I'm proud of her; she's proud of me. There is no competition animosity, envy, or jealousy. We're just secure, confident women doing our thing while supporting each other. I call that a SiSTARship and it is the essence of a Smart Woman Achieving Greatness. (SWAG)”
― Sabrina Newby

“If women can birth the world, women can run the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth remembered only when we leave their obscurity. And so we become infamous because we were not invisible, the truth of our lives ephemeral as incense.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“It is harder for queens, who have no luxury of meekness. History does not know how to reconcile our ambition or our power when we are strong enough to survive it. The priests have no tolerance for those of us driven by the divine madness of questions. And so our stories are blackend from the fire of righteous indignation by those who envy our imagined fornications. We become temptresses, harlots, and heretics.
I have been all and none of these, depending on who tells the tale.”
― Tosca Lee, The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen

“Some people chase titles while I chase territory.”
― Sabrina Newby

“Wars against the barbarians, with all their attendant trials and tribulations he was prepared to face himself, but the entire administration of affairs, the choice of civil magistrates, the accounts of the imperial revenues and expenditure he left to his mother. At this point the reader may well censure him for transferring the government of the Empire to the gynaeconitis, but had he known this woman’s spirit, her surpassing virtue, intelligence and energy, his reproaches would soon have turned to admiration. For my grandmother had an exceptional grasp of public affairs, with a genius for organization and government; she was capable, in fact, of managing not only the Roman Empire, but every other empire under the sun as well.”
― Anna Comnena, The Alexiad

“War is a masculine merchandise, whereas preserving life is an act of the feminine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Women in power is power used best,
Men in power means power makes a mess.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Women in Power (The Sonnet)

Women in power is power used best,
Men in power means power makes a mess.

For the world to become gender-neutral,
First it's gotta become matriarchal.
Thereafter gender will bear no significance,
Only the capable shall dawn the pedestal.

In patriarchy war and tyranny are the norm,
While peace and equality are exception.
In matriarchy synergy is the norm,
While shallowness is the exception.

Before the world is equalized,
first it's gotta be dehypnotized.
And no world is ever dehypnotized till
the paradigm is mended by the marginalized .”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Every mistake I make will be used to attack me for getting above my place as a woman. They'll blacken my name and sully all my good work. Why should I open myself up to that? Why should I do it?”
― Stephanie Dray, Becoming Madam Secretary

“In a world run by women, no gender is second gender.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When the woman is king, not queen, not princess, but the absolute monarch of the kingdom of apes, that’s the beginning of actual human evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace