Quotes About Empowerment

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that it made sense to give that up.

Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.

There's always a different energy when you're surrounded by a group of women creatives.

Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.