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What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while..." "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.
Sep 29, 2025
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.
You are more powerful than you think.
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.
If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge.
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.