Great Women Leaders And Their Quotes & Sayings

I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that. — Stephanie Allain

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years. — Nicole Sullivan

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict. — Leo Tolstoy

I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities. — Mary Barra

The tenor voice should be like sunshine. — Marcello Giordani

I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as leaders. In the play, Catherine the Great would say things like, "You know, John F. Kennedy had extramarital affairs and no one says anything. But I bang one horse and now I'm a horse banger for all eternity? That's it? That's what I am?" — Tina Fey

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods. — Elbert Hubbard

I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism. — Manny Alvarez

The deer carcass hangs from a rafter.
Wrapped in blankets, a boy keeps watch
from a pile of loose hay. Then he sleeps

and dreams about a death that is coming:
Inside him, there are small bones
scattered in a field among burdocks and dead grass.
He will spend his life walking there,
gathering the bones together.

Pigeons rustle in the eaves.
At his feet, the German shepherd
snaps its jaws in its sleep. — Gregory Orr

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. — Booker T. Washington

We all have our demons. But men? They have them much worse. The world tells them that they are the leaders and great and macho and have to be big and brave and make a lot of money and lead these glamorous lives. But they don't, do they? Look at the men in this neighborhood. They all worked too many hours. They came home to noisy, demanding homes. Something was always broken they needed to fix. They were always behind on the house payments. Women, we get it. Life is about a certain kind of drudgery. We are taught not to hope or want too much. Men? They never get that. — Harlan Coben

I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up. — Berglind Icey

I will always remember
when the stars fell down around me
and lifted me up above
the George Washington Bridge. — Faith Ringgold

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. — C.S. Lewis

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either. — Mahatma Gandhi

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You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race. — Friedrich Schiller

[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose. — Lisa Henry

It's a marriage of convenience. Temporarily, so long as our interests coincide, however long it takes to dispose of that mob of petit blancs at Port-au-Prince. Afterward,' he waved his sticky fingers airily, 'everything will return to the way it was before. — Madison Smartt Bell