Quotes About Empowerment

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.

Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.

Of course we know that sexual promiscuity increases the likelihood of STIs, which is why we explore sexuality through romance - it's safer (and you don't have to shave your legs).

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other

feministas que se dejen de hablar mierda. Habrá una ley que otra que nos proteja, una puerta que otra que se nos abra. Pero en el día a día, una mujer sigue valiendo lo que siempre ha valido una mujer.

Mirišem je kao cvijet: miris ?ist i drag. I znam da mogu sve u životu, s njom. Držim je na rukama i njišem je polako, polako, da je odvojim od svijeta, od straha, od ružnih sje?anja, da ostanem samo ja, svuda oko nje, u nedogled, kao nebo, kao more, da je prelijem nježnoš?u što vri u meni kao vrutak. Ne boj se, kažem. Volim te, kažem. Ko nam šta može, kažem. I osje?am se kao gospodar svijeta.

Ne voliš da budeš na smetnji, ne voliš da te ko krivo pogleda, ne voliš da ti iko ružnu rije? kaže. Kako onda misliš živjeti?

when a man can't be proud of himself, he looks to the woman. If she's not something to be proud of, she'll pay double for both of them. I learned that the hard way.

Men's attention and approval were borrowed gifts she was no longer sure she wanted.

You cannot lead others, if you cannot lead yourself. Know yourself and develop self discipline first, the rest is easy

that you didn't work just for the money, you worked for the freedom work gave you, for the chance to be a stronger, more interesting version of yourself.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.

It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn't a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction.

Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.

At the podium Faith said, "Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but...' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

Faith Frank hired me, originally, based on nothing. She took me in and she taught me things, and more than that she gave me permission. I think that's what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don't feel we're allowed to be.

I think there are two kinds of feminists. The famous ones, and everyone else. Everyone else, all the people who just quietly go and do what they're supposed to do, and don't get a lot of credit for it, and don't have someone out there every day telling them they're doing an awesome job.

I think that's what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don't feel we're allowed to be.

Sisterhood," she said, "is about being together with other women in a cause that allows all women to make the individual choices they want. Because as long as women are separate from one another, organized around competition—like in a children's game where only one person gets to be the princess—then it will be the rare woman who is not in the end narrowed and limited by our society's idea of what a woman should be.

They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.