Quotes on Empowering Women

There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength it’s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now we’re making them unpopular again.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.