Quotes About Empowerment

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

Women are not the problem they're the solution

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

I was shocked to find out that only 50 percent of women do not engage with makeup and the reasons are: They don't know how to use it, they don't know what suits them, they don't have the time.

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

I am always on the women's side.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.