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Quotes About Empowerment

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.
~ Tim Allen
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
~ Victoria Woodhull
For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
~ Sitting Bull
Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.
~ Steve Harvey
Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~ John F. Kennedy
...the man of my dreams is a girl.
~ Julie Anne Peters
If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.
~ Emma Watson
I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.
~ Gloria Stuart
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
~ Malcolm X
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
~ Marcus Garvey
To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.
~ Rapsody
I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
~ Berthe Morisot
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
~ Malcolm X
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.
~ June Jordan
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.
~ Sylvia Plath
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
~ Zoe Saldana