Quotes About Empowerment

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

Bigger women have more fat to live on. They can put out more effort.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.