Quotes About Empowerment

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.

Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.

To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.