Care Quote by Christine Lagarde

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

— Rita Mae Brown

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than…

— Mary Beard

I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they…

— Wangari Maathai

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

— Elizabeth Lesser

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

— Kathleen Wynne

They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power… Women…

— Jean Baker Miller

If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.

— Nina Shaw

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

— Danielle Steel

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power…

— Katharine Graham

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power.…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

— Lois Gould

“Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...”

— Carolyn G. Heilbrun