Aggression Quote by Jessye Norman

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

— Honore de Balzac

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

— Carol Gilligan

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men,…

— Katherine Dunn

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

— Mahatma Gandhi

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

— Bella Abzug

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

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

— Germaine Greer

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far.…

— Gloria Steinem

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

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

— Anonymous