Quotes About Empowerment

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.