Female Authority Quotes

My mother was a Jewish General Patton.

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

The tribe that constitutes a woman its ruler will not find redemption.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

Women ruled all; and ministers of state Were at the doors of women forced to wait,-- Women, who we oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand.

A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

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.

The women like us because we're the first real women rappers, and the men like us because we're strong. We're not some soft little rappers with soft little voices. The men who see us end up going, 'Hey! They're kickin' it!'

I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Women have always run the world; maybe it's time to give them a chance at ruling it.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

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.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.