Quotes About Empowerment

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!