Quotes About Empowerment

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Directing is genderless. The only thing...I love men.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.