Madeleine Albright Quotes

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

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.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

I'm not going to advocate for a female leader who I'm voting for solely on the basis of gender. And I think a lot of people feel that way.

I guess people have this image of women being more compassionate, being the mother, being caring, but I don't know if that's true. I think it's an image we've all carried over the years. I never want to attribute certain qualities to gender.

I just knew: first-time female on ESPN, there's going to be some backlash, like any change. There's always going to be resistance. There are going to be people that hear a female voice or see a female figure and are completely against it.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

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

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.