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Quotes About Empowerment

I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be
~ Edith Wharton
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.
~ Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.
~ Frederick Lenz
By experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.
~ Gary Zukav
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
~ Gloria Steinem
What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?
~ Lisa Ann Sandell
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.
~ Lynda Lee-Potter
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.
~ Malcolm X
I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.
~ Martha Stewart
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.
~ Muhammad Waseem
I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition
~ Patty Sheehan
I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
~ Olivia Thirlby