“But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.”— Miriam Toews, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, female
“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”— Helen Rowland, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Man
“We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. Yes, we can do it. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; all the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we rai…”— Malala Yousafzai, youtube.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Power
“I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you fe…”— Mindy Kaling, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, boss, In Charge
“It’s also important to realize that it’s okay to be the first. If you constantly look for role models who look like you, then there won’t be any firsts.”— Condoleezza Rice, 2001-2009.state.govTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, boss, Role Models
“How many women had to hit that glass before the pressure of their effort caused it to evolve from a thick pane of glass into just a thin sheet of splintered ice? … Making it through the glass ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman’s footprints…”— Shonda Rhimes, hollywoodreporter.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, boss, Power
“If you want to be successful and you are a woman, you have to understand that there’s all kinds of horrible stuff that comes with it, and you simply cannot do anything about it but move on.”— Nora Ephron, newyorker.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, boss, Success
“Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”— Tina Fey, amazon.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Powerful Women, boss
“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace
“People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.”— Joan Jett, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.'”— Clare Boothe Luce, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”— Ambrose Bierce, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Love, In love
“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”— Natalie Portman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Love, In love
“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… A woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Passion, Commitment
“The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”— Anita Loos, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Men, Funny
“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'”— Anna Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, I'm Enough, You're Enough
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”— Audre Lorde, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Speak Up For Yourself
“I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled”— Charlize Theron, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Silence
“Why do people say, ‘Grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”— Betty White, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Man
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”— Chimamanda Adichie, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Men, Intimidating
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attended.”— Marie Curie, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Life, perseverance
“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”— Isabel Allende, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Man
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”— Margaret Thatcher, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Man, Politics