Madeleine Albright Quotes

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

A woman can be in charge!

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.

Leadership desperately needs women.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

If our political positions were dominated by women, things might be different.

Few things give me more pride and hope for our future than when I see women, of all ages and backgrounds, in leadership roles. We need even more women in elected office, running businesses, and guiding organizations.

I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.

I love being a female. I love being the boss.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

It's an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren't the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

I think that women are often underestimated - our suggestions, our advice, our leadership style. I think one of the reasons that that happens is women are much less likely to blow their own horn and brag about everything that they've done.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

By the time I sold Birmingham City football club in 2009, 75% of the directors were women, which I take great pride in - that's unique in business, full stop.