Careers Quote by Karen Horney

“There is, in fact, a primary driving force behind women's reluctance to see their ambition as a virtue.”

— Debra Condren

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a…

— Ernestine Rose

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the…

— Carol Roth

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one…

— Sandra Bartky

I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a…

— Meera Menon

“That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and…

— Indira Gandhi

For women to succeed in politics, business and entrepreneurial ventures they have to battle against a stereotype of being heartless and unfeminine.

— Karla Crome

The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty…

— R. Heber Newton

“Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not exclusive.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and…

— Andrea Dworkin

“When a woman fears the punishment that comes from calling herself a feminist, I ask: Will you be so unpunished if you don’t? When…

— Gloria Steinem