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Quotes About Empowerment

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.
~ Indra Nooyi
It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
You are more powerful than you think.
~ Tim Cook
The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.
~ Chaka Khan
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
~ Elayne Boosler
Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.
~ Qiu Jin
There is no such thing as an ugly woman.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.
~ Candace Pert
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
~ Christopher Hitchens
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
~ Gloria Steinem
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
~ Leymah Gbowee
I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.
~ Kathrine Switzer
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
~ Gloria Steinem
What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.
~ Charlize Theron
You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
~ Salma Hayek
I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.
~ Carolina Herrera
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
~ Aretha Franklin
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
~ Cecile Richards
The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
~ Tyra Banks
One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
~ Isabel Allende
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
~ Queen Latifah
Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high.
~ Byllye Avery
I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.
~ Bianca Jagger