Explore Quotes on Women

We shouldn't expect women to have it all and manage it all and I certainly don't want to be portrayed in that way - I think it's a very negative message to send women.

Is that what we think of women when they have a baby? That they're nurturing and warm, but if they haven't got children they aren't? I find that really offensive.

I don't think roles for queer women have to always present in one specific way.

I was very aware of who Rita Moreno was growing up. I was like, 'She's one of the women who sort of looks like me.' But, she is a white presenting woman. We are both Latinas, but we're different in terms of how we walk through the world.

We need more men championing women in Hollywood. I don't think women need to change. We just need to be allowed to do what we do best.

Technology is making it easier for women to connect to business opportunities around the world. Legal obstacles must not be allowed to stand in their way. That's not just because it's economically smart. It's because discrimination shouldn't be the law.

Gender-based job restrictions tend to be associated with wider wage gaps and lower employment rates for women. And where girls' future earning potential is limited, families may choose to send their brothers to school instead.

Governments everywhere have ministries dedicated to women's affairs. I know of only one with a Ministry for Women Empowerment: Indonesia. Charged with the 'realization of gender equality and justice' together with children's well-being, the ministry frames gender equality as a matter of justice.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.

Japan has huge potential in women - potential, especially in the area of the economy, that Japan is not using fully.

When women are paid for their work and have control over how the money gets spent, they invest much more of their income than men do in their families' education and health.

Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.

The 'SheTrades' programme aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020 with a campaign, a focussed networking app, and a range of international and national information resources.

Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.

It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby minimising socioeconomic costs as well.

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.

I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.

Women care about their friends.