Quotes About Empowerment

Women are the architects of society

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

I like playing smart, savvy, sexy women -- because it's so not me!

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.