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Quotes About Empowerment

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
~ Shonda Rhimes
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
~ Madeleine Albright
I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
~ Helen Reddy
Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.
~ Mary Livermore
My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.
~ Giorgio Armani
Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.
~ Phyllis Chesler
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
~ Katha Pollitt
Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.
~ Marissa Mayer
It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.
~ Atifete Jahjaga
They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.
~ Malalai Joya
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
~ Jane Austen
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
~ Michelle Bachelet
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
~ Rosalyn S. Yalow
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
~ Germaine Greer
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
~ Oscar Wilde
We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.
~ Cybill Shepherd
With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
~ Ralph Kiner
If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.
~ Kang Youwei
I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body
~ Diane von Furstenberg
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
~ Isabel Allende