Quotes on Empowerment

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.