Challenges Quote by Kathleen Wynne

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

— Gloria Feldt

“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

Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be…

— Catherine Mayer

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

— Nina Shaw

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and…

— Christine Lagarde

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

— Roseanne Barr

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

— Bella Abzug

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's…

— Jordan Peterson

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