Quotes About Empowerment

I don't know,' I said. 'I don't think I know how to be a woman. I believe that no one ever showed me.' 'It isn't a question of showing,' he said. 'It's a question of being permitted.

The fact is that I received the clear message from the very beginning that everything would have been better – would have been right, would have been how it ought to be – had I been a boy.

But what other people thought was no longer of any help to me. Those thoughts only existed within certain structures, and I had definitively left those structures.

The woman without a background has a thin time, at any age,

In any case women are tougher, more adaptable, than men.

They shan't humiliate me to please themselves.

Men for the most part are a pain in the keister. Vibrators are a girl's best friend.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy. It was a history, and it was hers.

I am keen to create opportunities for women and youth leaders. I want to get women voters registered and protected.

You can't just chant 'Putin, go away!' because it doesn't make any sense at this point. We need to chant: 'Putin, give back our votes!'

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops.

The G.O.P. needs to fight for women votes because it believes our policies are better for women.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right?

To my dismay, inadequate signage, non-ADA compliant ramps, narrow doorways, and poorly-placed voting machines are preventing hundreds of thousands of people from exercising one of our most basic rights as Americans.

Something big is going on. I'm talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.

Part of that problem is women don't run. We don't run for office. It's not that people are overwhelmingly voting against us. We just don't step up to the plate. So we have to do a better job of recruiting women and getting women to step up.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.