Quotes About Empowerment

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.

Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.