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Quotes About Empowerment

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
~ Matthew Arnold
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
~ Betty Friedan
The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.
~ Ousmane Sembene
If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster
~ Mary Robinson
Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
~ Virginia Woolf
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
~ Walt Whitman
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.
~ Gloria Steinem
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
~ Betty Friedan
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
~ Bella Abzug
What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.
~ Sasha Grey
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.
~ Susan Wojcicki
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
~ Melinda Gates
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
~ Ela Bhatt
Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.
~ Leymah Gbowee
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices
~ Kiran Bedi
There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
~ Loretta Lynn
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.
~ Amelia Bloomer
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
~ Barbara Boxer
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
~ Nicole Kidman
There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.
~ Harriet Quimby
It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'
~ Coco Rocha
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
~ Ruth Benedict