Quotes About Empowerment

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.

As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.

I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of slavery when black people were reinventing themselves, and as a woman who was the first child in her family born free, she was trying to figure out a way, and she moved from Delta, Louisiana.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they're a woman. They don't want to be discriminated against because they're a woman.

With confidence, I think anyone can get a dress and make it their own. I don't think you should have it off the runway and wear it like they want you to wear it. You know, with their hair and makeup - their woman. I just think it's boring. You have to make it your own. That's what fashion is all about.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman.

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.

If each woman stands up and uses her voice, imagine how many voices would be together and how strong a mass that would be.