Quotes About Empowerment

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.

My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

I sometimes hear people say women don't want to direct studio films, but I do. I want to direct big films, little films, TV. I want to do it all.

People shouldn't be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

I don't know how women will feel safe.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

Women's voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.

When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

Of course I'm a feminist…if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.

Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.