Quotes About Empowerment

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.