Goldie Hawn Quotes

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

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

In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don't have to work hard to do that - it's not a statement, it's the world.

If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.

Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

It's really important to be a strong role model. It's one of my main things because I feel I've been exposed in such an extreme way to a lot of sexism.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Margaret Thatcher once said, "If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

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.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

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

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

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.