Feminine Leadership Quotes

As women go, so goes civilization.

A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.

The world will be saved by the western woman.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

That's one of the unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement - that, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be feminine, they would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children.

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive.

Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

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

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

A woman’s experience as a mother makes her uniquely qualified to govern.

I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

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

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

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.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

A woman can be in charge!