Quotes About Empowerment

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes; They will say, Women don't have what it takes.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.

Coolest f-word ever deserves a fu..ing shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?