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Quotes About Empowerment

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.
~ Anne Waldman
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
~ Laurence J. Peter
No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.
~ Willis Harman
I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.
~ Isabelle Adjani
As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
~ Marisa Berenson
I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.
~ Henry Winkler
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
~ Nan Goldin
Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.
~ Greg Behrendt
When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
~ Willem Dafoe
The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
~ Oswald Chambers
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Being a woman is hard work.
~ Maya Angelou
I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.
~ Rashid al-Ghannushi
In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate
~ Teri Garr
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
~ Amy Adams
In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.
~ Price Pritchett
If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."
~ Laozi
Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
~ Nathaniel Branden
People work better when they are afforded to be themselves
~ Stella McCartney
Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
~ Samina Baig
I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
~ Sarah Ferguson
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
~ Stephanie Beacham
I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.
~ Barbara Neely
One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.
~ bell hooks