Empowered Women Quotes

Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

You are more powerful than you think.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.