Quotes About Empowerment

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.

I'm doing all sizes. It's a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don't, so why should clothes?

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.