Quotes About Empowerment

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

Visibility is not equality.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

I thought equality was non-negotiable.

Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

I believe in gender equality.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.

Equality is humanity.