Quotes About Empowerment

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.