Quotes About Empowerment

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.

A man is either free or he is not.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

Don't be economic Girlie-Men.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

We shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.