Quotes About Empowerment

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Ernest Hemingway called Jospehine the "most sensational woman anyone ever saw." I think all women deserve to be this sensational looking!

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty.

A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.