Quotes About Empowerment

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

You are a good young man, she said. But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

It is a woman's duty not to lower herself.

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

For power finds its place in lack of power;               Advance

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action

Kun annetaan valmis malli - 'tällainen on juutalainen nainen, tällainen sinun pitää olla, tällaiseen sinua tarvitaan, naisen sydämen on oltava sen ja sen kokoinen eikä yhtään suurempi, muuten se rusennetaan pieneksi kuin kiinalaiset jalat; naisen onni tehdään kuin kakku, aina saman reseptin mukaan. S. 693

I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Always hire people bigger than yourself. If you hire people bigger than yourself, we will become a company of giants. If you hire people smaller than yourself, we will become a company of dwarves."14

George's stories remind us that we are not victims of circumstance—we have the power to react. Our actions will always determine the outcome. That makes all the difference.

Discrimination is a denial of freedom.

President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 speech at the Howard University commencement: It is not enough to open the gates of opportunity; all our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates … . We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result … . To this end equal opportunity is essential, but not enough, not enough.8 Because

Women are sacred.

Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.

In the sport itself it's fine, but online I have had constant sexist comments saying women are not as good as men.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.

Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web. And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce.

Women are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them.

In an era when so many women are stepping up to lead, I'm hoping people will focus on our ideas and accomplishments instead of our appearance.

When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, effort, and excellence. This has long been the philosophy at the Trump Organization. At my father's company, there are more female than male executives. Women are paid equally for the work that we do, and when a woman becomes a mother, she is supported, not shut out.

For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.