Quotes About Empowerment

I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday.