Quotes About Empowerment

I am an African American public official operating in an environment dominated by Caucasians. That is not too dissimilar from what I had to do in Mississippi to get elected and stay elected. I try to show them we are all in this together.

You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.

I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone's opinion is.

I mean, I didn't feel, as part of Girls Aloud, that my opinion wasn't heard, or they went and did certain things and I had no say, or we had no say.

I'm completely of the opinion that anybody can do CrossFit.

I am an opinionated feminist. I can never say or do anything against women.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

LADY HUNSTANTON Lord Illingworth, you don't think that uneducated people should be allowed to have votes? LORD ILLINGWORTH I think they are the only people who should.

Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being.

Wisdom should be freely available to all men without smart-alecky impediments

You've got to be a warrior," her father told her. "There are certain things you might have to do, for the sake of all black people. And no matter what you do as an individual, you're reflecting your group and your family. So make sure you're correct.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had

Bask in your uniqueness, revel in your strenght. We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will

Never say no to sex

You are special. Accept that about yourself, and you will begin to understand there is true power in your uniqueness.

C-sections and epidurals should be blessings to women, but I suddenly wondered if they had become a means from which to steal the magic of the power of birth away from a generation of mothers.

Never underestimate a woman simply because she is a woman. The Goddess of Life is female, and She is the only thing in this world mightier than death.