Quotes About Empowerment

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Men and women are not equal.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.

By 40, all women are amazing.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.

Economic opportunities will win the women's vote.

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.