12 Women Leader Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 10, 2026

A selection of women leader quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 There is nothing on this earth sexier, believe me, gentlemen, than a woman that you have to salute in the morning.

Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan Jessup in A Few Good Men

2 What? A female leading my herd? Utterly preposterous.

J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel Hathi in The Jungle Book (1967)

3 I learned that no women can live free and equal by standing silently by while huge sections of the human race were slandered and made second-class citizens.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

4 When I am queen, I will have the power to get rid of you.

Princess Jasmine in Aladdin (1992)

5 I see no reason why a woman wouldn't do as well as a man.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan The Barbarian in Conan the Destroyer

6 If only you had been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made.

Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000)

7 Then, father, I think hereafter I'll devote my life to being 'out of place,' to convincing most people that only when woman stands with man and demands full rights for all is she really in her place.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

8 The only protecting women need is protection by equality under the law. Equality of opportunities and the right to share the benefits of this land, alongside men.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

9 Any institution should be ashamed to discriminate against any woman.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

10 I dreamt of commanding men. He was happy to have a woman by his side. Perhaps he is right.

Romulus And Remus in Duel of the Titans (1961)