Quotes About Empowerment

Women are making strides in many areas and women have mentored and supported me along the way. I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

By March, 70 percent of women would be employed.

I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

I think Ivanka Trump she has this power and powerful women are reaching out to her and she needs to take advantage of that.

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.

I like the idea of a strong woman in charge.

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.

I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.