Quotes About Empowerment

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.

Women will change the corporation more than we expect.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.

Once women find sisterhood, there's nothing stronger.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.

I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

I'm happy to be working with all women.

I hope more women see, at least eventually, that a healthy relationship isn't anything that breaks you down.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

I really want to help write women back into history.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.