Quotes About Empowerment

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.