Quotes About Empowerment

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

Women are powerful and dangerous.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.