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Quotes About Empowerment

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.
~ Maya Angelou
I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.
~ Evelyn Boyd Granville
Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
~ Wilma Mankiller
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
~ Vera Farmiga
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
~ Bella Abzug
Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.
~ Christine Lagarde
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
~ Adrienne Rich
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
~ Helen Clark
Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.
~ Sandra Fluke
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.
~ Sarah Moore Grimke
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
~ Bella Abzug
Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.
~ Indra Nooyi
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.
~ Victoria Woodhull
I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.
~ Christian Louboutin
I can hear the roar of women's silence
~ Thomas Sankara
Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
~ Nellie L. McClung
If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion
~ Michelle Obama
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
~ Ntozake Shange
The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.
~ Wafa Sultan
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
~ Ann Richards
The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
~ Mary Parker Follett
The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf