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Quotes About Empowerment

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.
~ Helene D. Gayle
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.
~ Hortense Odlum
The most out-there thing I'm saying is, 'Don't have babies. Don't get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.
~ Roseanne Barr
Love either finds equality or makes it.
~ John Dryden
On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.
~ Patsy Kensit
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.
~ Mindy Kaling
Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.
~ Geraldine Stutz
Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
~ Cyril Connolly
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.
~ Alexander Chee
I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.
~ Caitlin Moran
I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.
~ Cameron Diaz
Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.
~ Seth Adam Smith
Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.
~ Donata Joseph
Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.
~ Russell Green
Education and Training For Life
~ David Dweck
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
~ Robert Mugabe
The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind
~ Marcus Garvey
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
~ Bhagat Singh