Quotes About Empowerment

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." Vincent Van Gogh.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.

I believe my past is my strength.

Evet, kad?nlar?n da erkekler gibi çirkin olabilme hakk?na kavuÅŸmalar? için mücadele etmeleri gerekiyor. Otuz ya??n üstündeki bir han?ma yaÅŸ sorulmaz diye geçiÅŸtirilen ve sanki yüz k?zart?c? bir hastal?k söz konusuymuÅŸ gibi bu konuda en ufak an??t?rmadan bile kaç?n?lan bu iÄŸrenç uzlaÅŸmay? b?rakmak gerek art?k.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

When it comes to LGBT civil rights, as with other marginalized groups, our fundamental personhood is not an issue that has two sides.

Yoshino says, "Gays should not rest now but move forward by looking back.

let's make them work for us. Let's keep them busy in committees defending our full civil rights in return for our full support and let them use it as a wedge issue against the GOP. The last thing leading Republicans want to do, after all, is have an open conversation about LGBT equality.

not standing there and taking it, being subservient to and trying to gain the acceptance of the bully. It means fighting back.

That's the thing with the real world. It's never going to be perfect, and I don't have control over that. But I can control how I behave in it, and how I let things affect me. I can choose to be perfect in my own way without having to be perfect in everyone else's eyes. Relying on other people to reflect my worth back to me is a fool's errand.

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings- all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. Here, we attempt to bridge the contradictions in our experience: We are the colored in a white feminist movement. We are the feminists among the people of our culture. We are often the lesbians among the straight. We do this bridging by naming our selves and by telling our stories in our own words.