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Quotes About Empowerment

If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.
~ Santosh Kalwar
It's in our genetics. It's why women are the master species. We give birth and we can walk in heels.
~ Jaci Burton, Taking a Shot
We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
~ Andrea Dworkin
All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.
~ Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown
It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
~ Virginia Petrucci
...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.
~ A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet
Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.
~ Bianca Frazier
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.
~ Wilkie Collins, Hide and Seek
All adventurous women do.
~ Lena Dunham
a body betrayeda heart destroyeda mind in confusionand yet a womanis capable of taking painand transforming it into triumph
~ R.H. Sin
I am not the number or beautiful face on your black board as you want to give identity to me ! I am me . I am my identity .
~ litymunshi
Come discover how astonishingit is to unravel your own blossoming.
~ Tara Estacaan
Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
What was the purpose of a woman monster?It came out in a whisper. 'What am I for?
~ Kristin Cashore, Fire
Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!
~ Hannah Witton
You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
~ Nikita Gill
And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?
~ Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.
~ John Rachel
This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
~ Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree
Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land