Quotes About Empowerment

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.

I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.

Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.

The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

Women are fully capable of doing everything.

Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.