Quotes About Empowerment

And one way that many women can feel like they're more protected is to be successful on their own, to be financially and socially independent, and that way they're not going to be relying on the will of men.

When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it's socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, 'I can speak my mind and say what I want.'

'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It's environmental armor.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

Every single girl in the world has had to fight to have herself heard, to have space, and to have a self in societies that try their best to deny them all three.

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what I've noticed... is, under the guise of empowering women, they end up being real cruel. And I think, 'Jeez, here in my patriarchy, we wouldn't do that.'

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

Ive lived and worked in developing countries so Im particularly interested in helping women in oppressive societies. Our problems can pale in comparison to theirs, the more we can do to empower them, the better off all women will be.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Our businesses also help promote socio-economic progress.

The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

I'm a huge feminist, I majored in sociology at college, and I care about what I put into the world.

Women all have our hard days, and we have our soft days. And there's a lot of music that doesn't make us feel as beautiful and good as we are.

We are - each and every one of us - unlearning misogyny. It's going to take some time. But be aware and active of your prejudices. Notice when they kick in and resist. Fight to stay soft and open. Step back and squint hard.