Quotes About Empowerment

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.

Bad women celebrate themselves.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.