Quotes about Empowerment
Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.
- Gloria Steinem
I pray for the courage To walk naked At any age To wear red and purple, To be unladylike, Inappropriate, Scandalous and incorrect To the very end.
- Gloria Steinem
the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.
- Gloria Steinem
I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And
- Gloria Steinem
Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.
- Gloria Steinem
Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.
- Gloria Steinem
That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.
- Gloria Steinem
There is a healthier self within each of us, just wating for encouragement
- Gloria Steinem
Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.
- Gloria Steinem
Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.
- Gloria Steinem
Laughter is a rescue.
- Gloria Steinem
The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self
- Gloria Steinem