Quotes About Empowerment

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

I'm always have been in my life a big protector of women. If I see a guy slap a girl I would rip their head off; I'm very like that.

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

Women's football does have its knockers.

I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

I love my curves. You know, I'm healthy and I think thats what Sports Illustrated represents: healthy, confident women who love their bodies.

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they're trying to be a woman in a man's game.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.