Quotes About Empowerment

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.