Power Quote by Mary Beard

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

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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 male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state…

— Bryant McGill

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

“Power gets legitimated through schemas; if there is an underlying schema that says that men are more decisive than women, this schema will structure…

— Wendy Griswold

“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

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't…

— Mary McDonnell

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

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

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft