Quotes About Empowerment

Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.