Women Empowerment Quotes

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

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

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!

...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.

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

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

The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

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.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

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.

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.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

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.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

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.

Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation.

I am only one, But still I am one.

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.

Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.