Quotes About Empowerment

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

The worst thing that can happen for people who don't want women to be strong is that we help each other and become a force.

I've never had an abortion. And I don't know if I would. But, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight to the death for women to make their own choices for their own human bodies.

Guys like you make life easy for some women.

In the locker rooms, I'm always suggesting, "You need Berlei." Because it's the best brand for women and for me.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.