Quotes About Empowerment

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

Women are the real architects of society.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.