Quote by Valerie Young

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually…

— Alanis Morissette

“Despite the worldwide opinion that women are loquacious and indiscreet, my own experience has led me to believe that women on the whole make…

— Jan Karski

“Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance…

— Margaret Atwood

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys…

— Naveen Jain

“Unlike men in the same position, women leaders have to continue to walk the fine line between appearing incompetent and nice and competent but…

— Cordelia Fine

Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women…

— Maureen Chiquet

“Men aren’t naturally more confident than women. We tell them to believe in themselves, and we tell women to doubt themselves. We tell them…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to…

— Joyce Brothers

Women often seem to have a fear of being 'found out'. Of thinking they've pulled the wool over their boss's eyes to get a…

— Emily Maitlis

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead…

— Robert Jordan

“under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“...Obduracy can be overcome by determination. More insidious, and far harder to destroy, was women's internalizing of the notion that they were somehow inferior…

— Ruth Brandon