Quotes About Empowerment

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

All that I am my mother made me.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

My mother always told me,"hide your face- people are looking at you". I would reply,"It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?