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Quotes About Empowerment

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.
~ Jenna Jameson
If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.
~ Fawzia Koofi
Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
~ Melinda Gates
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
~ Pam Grier
Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women.
~ Jesse Peyronel
The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.
~ Hill Harper
Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
~ Desmond Tutu
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.
~ Sakena Yacoobi
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
~ Zainab Salbi
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.
~ Amartya Sen
The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.
~ Simon Doonan
The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.
~ Naomi Wolf
Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge
~ Kathleen Wynne
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
~ Fannie Barrier Williams
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
~ Emmeline B. Wells
I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.
~ Gisele Bundchen
Well behaved women do not make history.
~ Mae West
Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.
~ Miranda Kerr
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Woman's cause is one and universal.
~ Anna Julia Cooper