Quotes About Empowerment

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am.

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

Equality for women is progress for all.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Let's just put it this way: if you think there's a thing – anything – women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.