Quotes About Empowerment

Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.

Everything I do is about women honouring themselves, treating themselves and taking care of themselves.

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

Women are hard on themselves.

Most women at some point or many points in their lives will have to deal with an unwanted advance and having the confidence to be "rude" and say no is an important skill to develop.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you can have oodles of fun along the way.

I can tell women's confidence levels rise when they wear heels.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

Women are equal because they are not different any more.

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.