Quotes About Empowerment

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

Some leaders are born women.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.

I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.