Quotes About Empowerment

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

More and more women are going online.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.