Pentti Linkola Quotes

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

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

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

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. 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 think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Women are God's last creation. You suppose he's saying, "What should I do to follow this?" Well, it's really a head -scratcher. I think women are absolutely wonderful. I think this world is going to be governed by women.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

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.

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.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

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 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've got to get women to sit at the table.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

We will have a female President.

You're not going to have a society that understands its humanity if you don't have more women in government.

If we think that our daughters ought to be in Congress next to our sons, we'd better let our sons know that now, so that they get prepared to have women as colleagues.

Persians had women leading the army, women leading the country, women who govern for thousands of years.

I would love for there to be a female president.