Quotes About Empowerment

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

Embracing yourself is important and I wish that all women would realize how beautiful they are, inside and out.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.