Quotes about Empowerment
Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.
— Jimmy Carter
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
— John Donne
Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
— John Eldredge
Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.
— Lady Gaga
Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.
— Louise Hay
If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Women have an important contribution to make.
— Margaret Mead
There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.
— Marianne Williamson
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
— Maya Angelou
I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.
— Pope Francis