Quotes About Empowerment

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

I am woman, hear me roar.

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 triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

Give us that grand word woman once again, And let's have done with lady; one's a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

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.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes -- that's why you sometimes need really special shoes!

I am my own woman.

Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.