Quotes About Empowerment

Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.

I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

I don't have any special advice for America's women, except to know who you are and to put your priorities in order and to not worry about the naysayers and critics say.

It's nice to say or it's great to ask, are we limiting opportunities for women? But do we even have each other's support, frankly, on our way there?

Donald Trump has always had women around him in powerful positions. That's true in his corporation, in his campaign, and now his cabinet.

29 to 30 million women voted for Donald Trump. Their voices are heard as well. They should be respected.

Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big, we are chanting to Nigerians: all we are saying, give us Goodluck.

I definitely think women are running it right now. We are not afraid to speak our minds. It's exciting because that's what I stand for, for people to be irreverent and to be themselves.

I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

Today I'm a more solid, grounded person, positioned to encourage women. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.

We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.