Quotes About Empowerment

It was the first time I witnessed the ancient and modern magic of groups in which anyone may speak in turn, everyone must listen, and consensus is more important than time.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women. In

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. If they see their mothers and other women in their lives going forward despite fear, they'll know it's possible.

As Zapata rides to his destiny, his wife hangs on to his boot, dragging in the dust, imploring him to stay home. Since I couldn't yet admit to myself that I was more interested in going to sea and the revolution than in staying home as the mother or the wife, I just vowed silently that I would never become an obstacle to any man's freedom.

The voting booth is the one place on Earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.

There is a healthier self within each of us, just wating for encouragement

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.

In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also underestimated.

If feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves: for our own lives and actions. It is not "women as victims" but women refusing to be victims. What we need, as adults or children, is just one person who has confidence in us, so we can have confidence in ourselves.

The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self worth defending.

I had been silent and silenced about an abortion I'd had years before. Like many women, I'd been made to feel at fault, not realizing there were political reasons why female humans were not supposed to make decisions about our own bodies.

What our bodies can do is way more important than how they look. Sports help young women realize that our bodies are instruments, not ornaments.

But for women especially, bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without those visual references, however, each individual woman's body can be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

We are the women our parents warned us about - and we are proud!

I'm not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday

There is power in proximity. Get close to the problem you feel drawn to. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do uncomfortable things.

Secrets have power only as long as they are secret.

Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.

As Vita Sackville-West wrote: I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

Don't worry, honey," she said to me comfortingly, "it's important for someone who could play the game—and win—to say: 'The game isn't worth shit.'

Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a way of solving conflict. It wasn't about biology, but experience.

Needing approval is a female cultural disease