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Quotes About Empowerment

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
~ Natalie Portman
Yes, you can learn a lot about women, from what they choose to wear. You can learn even more by what they choose to take off, and who they take it off for.
~ Mary Alice
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
~ Mae West
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
~ Jane Campion
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
~ Indira Gandhi
It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.
~ Oriana Fallaci
It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
~ Anne Bancroft
I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
~ Salma Hayek
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
~ Isabel Allende
Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!
~ Barry Goldwater
Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.
~ Jodi Picoult
It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Empowering women isn't just the right thing to do - it's the smart thing to do.
~ Barack Obama
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
~ Annie Lennox
Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.
~ Annie Lennox
We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.
~ Paula Broadwell
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
~ Samuel Butler
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
~ Joseph McCabe
Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't
~ Kathleen Turner
We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
~ Margaret Cho
Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.
~ Lita Ford