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Quotes About Empowerment

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
~ Kathleen Turner
Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
~ Hillary Clinton
The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.
~ Ahmed Rashid
Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.
~ Sandra Bullock
Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
~ Will Rogers
Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.
~ Geena Davis
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
~ Michelle Bachelet
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.
~ Nelson Mandela
Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?
~ Laurent Blanc
There are not many roles where women are really active.
~ Kathleen Quinlan
I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
~ Adam Hills
Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any?
~ Helen Wills
Women are rising. And I think that's all the violence and war - it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
~ Jane Fonda
There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
~ Alix Kates Shulman
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
~ Larry David
Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.
~ Rashida Jones
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.
~ Sonia Johnson
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
~ Michelle Bachelet
It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
~ Susan Sarandon
Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
~ Amber Valletta
Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott