Quotes About Empowerment

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

I looked to my mom as an example. And this is what I try to tell so many women: that my mom had a career, and she went to the gym. She took care of herself.

Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want - it's the billion-dollar question. But it's simple: put one in charge, and you find out.

My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear or the makeup on your face BUT by the way you carry your struggles with smiles, hard work & love

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.