Quotes on Empowerment

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

Interdependency follows independence.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.