Quotes About Empowerment

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." 

No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.

no one ever got radicalized by being grateful

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...} I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females—from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking—has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

If someone called me a lesbian—in those days all single feminists were assumed to be lesbians—I learned just to say, "Thank you." It disclosed nothing, confused the accuser, conveyed solidarity with women who were lesbians, and made the audience laugh.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I'm "passing the torch." I explain that I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much—and I'm using it to light the torches of others.

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.

Feminism is memory.

In most societies, a woman is encouraged to give birth to another person more than she is encouraged to give birth to herself.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.