Quotes About Empowerment

the love of independence and possibilities

I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind," in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive.

Ng??i có quy?n lá»±c chi?m l?y danh t?, còn ng??i y?u th? hÆ¡n ph?i ch?u làm tính t?.

I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.

as Senator Barbara Mikulski pointed out, "We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year.

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

She was a civil rights advocate. He was a feminist.

Saying politics is dirty is just a way of keeping us from changing the politics of our own lives.

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.

probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.

Carolyn Heilbrun's

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. Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find

As we explained our idea of teaching Gandhian tactics to women's movements, she listened to us patiently, sitting and rocking on her veranda, sipping tea. When we were finished, she said, 'Well, of course, my dears. We taught him everything we knew.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

lack of self-confidence, a feeling of being unsuited to power, is the emotional training that helps to keep any less-than-equal group in its place.

Also, despite the belief of population experts that uneducated women wouldn't use birth control, these women knew very well when their own bodies were suffering from too many pregnancies and births. That's why as prime minister, Indira Gandhi took on the controversy of creating the first national family planning program. Her early journeys in those women-only cars had taught her that ordinary women would use it, even if in secret, and literacy had little to do with it.

The accusation that feminism is bad for the family leads to understanding that it's bad for the patriarchal variety, but good for democratic families that are the basis of democracy.

women in such anti-abortion groups are more likely to be deprived of birth control and so to need an abortion. They

How do I love campuses? Let me count the ways. I

The Sacred Hoop

Politics don't begin in Washington. Politics begin with those who are oppressed right here.