Quotes About Empowerment

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

Womens humor is part of the revolution.

Women hold up half the sky.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the Constitution.