Female Leaders Quotes

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

Some leaders are born women.

I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.

Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.

She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.

I believe that women make some of the best leaders.

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah ... But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.

Zendaya - she's a boss - and Rihanna as well. I feel like those are two very powerful women.

Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.

I think - everything just in the political realm - women are usually perceived to be more trustworthy and compassionate. And they usually fare well against their male counterpart.

Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.

Padmasree Warrior has been on all the lists. The most powerful women in tech. The most powerful women in the world.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

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

When it comes to the challenges of being an entrepreneur and a female, specifically a female entrepreneur, it's something that we really have been living for a long time in a different pool.

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

Media hosts just talk about Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher and again miss the point. I was talking about AMERICAN culture, ladies and gentlemen. As I pointed out, if Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir, by the way, she didn't care, and Margaret Thatcher didn't care how she look like. If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today, as she was when she was the Iron Lady, we wouldn't have her mom doing television commercials telling us how wonderful she was when she was a kid and how nice she is.