Nora Roberts Quotes

I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.

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

I've never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I've always been the boss.

I'm no libber. I like it when a man looks at me and treats me like a woman. I do think though, that women should get equal pay to a man doing the same thing.

There was that argument that if we had more women in positions of authority, the world would be a nicer place. And then we got Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Indira Gandhi. When women become acclimatised to war, they can become every bit as ruthless as men.

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.

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.

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.

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 think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying.

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

The tribe that constitutes a woman its ruler will not find redemption.

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

Is not Victoria Empress of India? Have we not, among our country-women, persons of as much talent and ability? Is not history full of precedents of women rulers?

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

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

Women were really the backbone of the civil rights movement, although the leadership was predominantly male. At the rallies, the audience was women and children. The platform was predominantly men.

… dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.