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Quotes About Empowerment

Women don't realize how powerful they are.
~ Judith Light
We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
~ Lisa Bonet
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
~ George William Curtis
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
~ Corita Kent
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
~ Natalie Goldberg
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
~ Hillary Clinton
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
~ Isabel Allende
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
~ Andrea Jung
I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
~ Evita Peron
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
~ Kathleen Turner
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
~ Courtney Love
Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.
~ Julia Stiles
Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
~ Sidney Sheldon
When anything goes, it's women who lose.
~ Camille Paglia
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
~ Billy Sunday
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
~ Andrew Cuomo
Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
~ Michelle Obama
If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'
~ Marianne Elliott
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
~ Holly Near
That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
~ Sojourner Truth
I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
~ Carre Otis