Quotes About Empowerment

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.

If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.

I'm too short to be strong!

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

Your key hobbies need to be long country walks (get some fresh air in those lungs!), masturbation, and the revolution. Between those three, you should, in the long term, stay relatively sane.

Megan, you just single handedly set the women's movement back twenty years

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on.

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

I ain't taking no more rides on the stupid train.

If I'm going down, I'm going down with lipstick on.

I feel like I've been ironing all day in high heels and no brassiere. ~Tizzy Donovan, Laid Out and Candle Lit

If you let something scare you to death, then the worst has happened.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

Fries Before Guys

i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.