Quotes About Empowerment

Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.

My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.

I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.

As it pertains to my black womanhood, there's just a lot of ground to cover. There's a lot of stuff to say.

The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

I like being a woman and having a womanly body.

I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.

I prefer my body after I've had kids to before. I like a womanly, shapely figure. I'm more secure as a woman. I know who I am.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

You can use your womb if you want - it's the most beautiful thing to do if you want - but it's not our only reason to be put on this earth.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

I have an equal opportunity womb!

I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.

Girls are womb of humanity, nucleus of the family and are supposed to become fully participant citizens in our own countries.

We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.

India is one of those few countries in the world where violence against women starts in the womb, before the girl is even born.

When my daughter went to school, her last name was mine. The school insisted that her father's name be added to hers, not her mother's. The fact that the mother kept her in her womb for nine months is forgotten. Women don't have an identity. She has her father's name today and will have her husband's tomorrow.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.