Quotes About Empowerment

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.

As women, we cannot afford to neglect ourselves.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

I love collaborating with strong women.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.

I'm representing women in a cool way

Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in.

Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

I want women to have all the opportunities that they aspire to.

The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.

There is no question that women helping women works for women.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.