Quotes About Empowerment

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

I love women, I think they're great.

The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

I feel it's so important to have strong women around you.

The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

You want to see women your own age in films.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.