Quotes About Empowerment

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to separate to do that: a bath, a walk. She must cordon off an erotic space.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.