Quotes about Empowerment
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 want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.
- Sheryl Sandberg
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
- Sheryl Sandberg
When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.
- Sheryl Sandberg
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
- Tony Campolo