Inspirational Quotes from Female Leaders

• “Because women’s liberation is a movement of the powerless for the powerless, its attraction is not immediately clear to the powerless, who feel they need alliance with the powerful to survive.”-Rosemary O’Grady (Lawyer and Book Reviewer)

• “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”-Mother Teresa

• “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”-Marie Curie, Physicist and first woman to win the Nobel Prize

• “If I’ve learned one thing in the past months it has been to save the energy I used to expend on being angry about injustice and put that energy into thinking and feeling joy, prosperity, sustainability, health and justice for all. This is what will change the world…………..a ground swell of people pouring their energy into manifesting their “preferred future” instead of being worn down by disillusion and disappointment.”-Molly Carlile, Author of Jelly Beans and Dead Serious Podcast Network

• “We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”-Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist,Families in Peril

• “Whether there are innately female leadership styles… is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.” -Charlotte Bunch 

• Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any measures. -Margaret Chase Smith