Hanna Rosin Quotes

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

Hanna Rosin

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• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Know
  • Heaven

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Young

• Men have not stacked the decks against women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Against

• Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Women
  • Performances
  • Athletes

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Women
  • Love
  • For Him

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

  

  Questlove
  • Love
  • Power
  • Now

• When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Women
  • Support
  • Gender

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

  

  Mary Stewart
  • Men
  • Live
  • Death

• Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilize and galvanize a lot of these ideas and resources. It's a war of ideas. We, Islamic women, are very well supported in this country by institutions, academic and nonprofit, that are already in the field endorsing women's rights and tolerance. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work.

  

  Asra Nomani
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Country

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• There are two sorts of affection – the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.

  

  Arthur Wing Pinero
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Woman

• I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Envy

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power