Quotes About Empowerment

According to the Dalai Lama, the only hope for peace and prosperity lies in the hands of women in the West.

Isabel Allende

He felt that Christianity, like almost all forms of superstition, made men weaker and more resigned

ninguna mujer razonable desea un marido a jornada

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Defy, disobey, and disrupt is for young women who don't have the responsibility of motherhood, and for grandmothers who are past their reproductive years.

A high school teacher for many years, Carme thought education was as important as bread, and that everyone who could read and write had a duty to teach those abilities to others.

con sus ahorros le pagó veinte pesos a un cura para que le enseñara a leer y escribir y con los tres que le sobraron se compró un diccionario. Lo revisó desde la A hasta la Z y luego lo lanzó al mar, porque no era su intención estafar a los clientes con palabras envasadas.

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

I come from a place that is very politically sophisticated and progressive. New Zealand was the first place to give women the right to vote.

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

Indian women have always been full-bodied and men like voluptuous women. Size zero is a concept of the West and it is only meant for the runway models, not for us.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

You don't have to be a size zero to be beautiful.

I have zero pressure, because I have nothing to lose.

My album is called 'Zero to Infinity' and none of my songs are going to have cheap, dirty lyrics. Every song, in a way, is a women empowerment song. Every song, even if it's a dance track, you'll be dancing on it, but it's the right thing.

The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.

I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.

There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Melbourne, and even in the Philippines, zero waste is on the agenda. I think what's particularly inspiring is when communities don't wait to be told what to do but just go ahead and do it.

I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

I'm a normal sized girl. I'm not a size double zero; I don't weigh 90 pounds. I'm a healthy girl.