Quotes About Empowerment

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn't need a catch phrase to define what she instinctively has accomplished. She just 'does it.'

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

Not only I am an adoptee, but I also want to prove to everyone that being legally blind with a rare eye disease called Nystagmus that you can do and be anything if you put your mind to it and believe in yourself.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

For so long, the fashion industry has designed almost exclusively for a particular woman with particular measurements, and they've never really been challenged on it. We're all consumers, yet we're rarely given a voice within this industry that dictates what we wear.

Black women are the most passionate commentators, and even as black female geeks and nerds, they are rarely acknowledged.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'

I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

I'm not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

The reason why we have 19 percent women in places like Congress is because we don't run at the same rate as men. And I think one of the things we're starting to realize is we have to step into the arena.

Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it's important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field.

What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.