“The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.”— Lori Ziganto, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, female
“[Being a boss] is my job…We’re all feminists here and I don’t think anyone I work with would interpret that being a boss would be like being a bitch or anything.”— Tavi Gevinson, mtv.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, boss, In Charge
“A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE…AND THE SENATE.”— Kristin Hannah, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“They always, always underestimate women.”— Susan Ee, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.”— Sonia Johnson, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.”— Toni Morrison, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“Bitches get stuff done.”— Tina Fey, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace
“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”— Sue Monk Kidd, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.”— Vanessa Carlton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.”— Susan B Anthony, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.”— Margaret Mead, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Man
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue—that I had to do the job myself.”— Anaïs Nin, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Art
“I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how ‘bossy’ can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Bossy, boss
“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.”— Dolly Parton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Limits
“Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able t…”— Hillary Clinton, popsugar.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Challenging Assumptions, Uncomfortable
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”— Simone de Beauvoir, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“I handle my business and also I speak up for myself. But if I was not like this, so many people would’ve taken advantage of me…I just always felt like, I’m never going to let anyone pull me down and make me feel small. I’m never going to let a man do that and I think sometimes that transfers over in…”— Nicki Minaj, youtube.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Business, Advantage
“There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.”— Gloria Allred, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.”— Sophia Amoruso, kindle.amazon.comTagged: Alpha Female, Girl Boss, boss, Woman, Women
“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”— Rebecca West, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for c…”— Weili Dai, edition.cnn.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Nerds, Geeks
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can’t.”— Carol K. Carr, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“I think when you start out in your career, you think that everything is fair, and you are getting equal opportunities. And as you move up higher in the ranks, you realize that actually there are fewer positions and it’s more competitive and it’s harder to get those opportunities. And then you reach…”— Ellen Pao, blogs.wsj.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Career, opportunities
“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”— Sally Klempton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, female
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”— Charlotte Whitton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“There’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels.”— Ginger Rogers, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.”— Angela Merkel, content.time.comTagged: Alpha Female, Woman, Women, Ambition, Ambitious