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Quotes About Empowerment

We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.
~ Tina Sloan
It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.
~ Laila Ali
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
~ Diana Vreeland
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?
~ Ellen Willis
We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.
~ Babatunde Osotimehin
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women are natural anarchists...
~ Kim Gordon
I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?
~ RuPaul
Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.
~ Bert Stern
Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
We sell the movies. Women need to know they are an asset and they are the ones who should be making the money.
~ Jenna Jameson
You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.
~ Kevin Durant
My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.
~ Lynda Carter
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
~ Frederick Douglass
I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
~ Alice Glass
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
The future of rock belongs to women.
~ Kurt Cobain
You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
~ Bjork
I believe in the power of the voice of women.
~ Malala Yousafzai
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman