Quotes on Empowerment

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

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.