Quotes About Empowerment

My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.

In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.

While it's true that women are the minority in most tech companies, I don't think that inhibits entry into the tech space. My motto has always been, 'Live What You Love,' and as such, I think it's incredibly important to do work you believe in and to work for a company that has values that align with your own, be it in tech or another industry.

I don't have a horror story to share like the ones we have heard from so many women in the #MeToo movement... But when you really listen to women, you begin to understand the million little ways in which all women are made less and denied the opportunity to contribute to their communities and their country.

Women are the reason why mankind exists. Let's give them their due.

Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

Now, women are expected to be equal to men in so many capacities - financially, career-wise, in education - yet the one disconnect was, and is, with relationships.

What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

I don't think women are dumb.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

Some jobs are for women, and some jobs are for men. It has nothing to do with how capable women are.

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

Women are amazing lovers.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

Women are truly, truly awesome.

Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape.