Quotes About Empowerment

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

A woman's place is in the wrong.

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.

Women in business, women in employment anywhere face a very different set of challenges than their male counterparts.

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.