Quotes About Empowerment

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

Women should be someone and not something.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.