Anat Cohen 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.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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

My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're dramatically nonsexual.

I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don't want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth.

I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.'

So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.