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Quotes About Empowerment

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
~ Tim Robbins
The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.
~ Timothy Thomas Fortune
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
~ Ziggy Marley
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
~ Halle Berry
I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.
~ Hannah Hart
The inferiority of women is man-made.
~ Helen Keller
In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.
~ Helen Mirren
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.
~ Isabel Allende
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
~ Ivy Baker Priest
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
~ Jane Addams
When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.
~ Jason Evert
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.
~ John F. Kennedy
Out here a man settles his own problems.
~ John Wayne
Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.
~ Joyce Maynard
Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
~ Joycelyn Elders
The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.
~ Kelsey Grammer
I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
~ Ken Kesey
I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.
~ Leven Rambin
Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?
~ Charles A. Reich
The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.
~ Chief Joseph
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
~ Claudius Claudianus