Quotes About Empowerment

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

Never let another man put fear in your heart.

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.

All the men on my staff can type.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be