Quotes About Empowerment

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Every woman should be "absolute mistress of her own body.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

The best contraceptive is the word "no" repeated frequently.

The best contraceptive is the word no — repeated frequently.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

In general, more nonsense was written about the so-called 'feminine factor' during my time in office than about almost anything else. I was always asked how it felt to be a woman Prime Minister. I would reply: 'I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

If you want something said,ask a man;if you want something done,ask a woman.

When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched the earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. My grandmothers were strong. My grandmothers were full of memories Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay With veins rolling roughly over quick hands They have many clean words to say. My grandmothers were strong. Why am I not as they?

Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

Fly Dog, fly! I will be your missing eye, and you will be my wings.

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

Does the work of a girl always have to be so anonymous?

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

When will women not be compelled to view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained? When will a woman cease to be made of pain?

When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them.

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.