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“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.”

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Author:Charlotte Bunch

“Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.”

Source: The new peoplemaking

“I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.”

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Author:Anne Sweeney

“We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.”

“There are many examples of female leaders who are not afraid to take responsibility and openly face the challenges in the worst situations.”

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Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Female leaders are more oriented toward real and long-lasting results of their policies.”

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Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say “We’re going to move.” Then she moves off and everybody just follows.”

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Author:Patricia Wright

“I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.”

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Author:Mary Pope Osborne

“There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.”

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Author:Priyanka Chopra

“There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power.”

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Author:Peter Beinart

“I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?”

Author:Jill Soloway

“When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“People don't always want to have females as leaders.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”

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Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.”