Quotes About Empowerment

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.