Top 100 Empowerment Women Quotes
#1. Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
Ban Ki-moon
#2. I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.
Caroline George
#3. Most religious scriptures are all about three apparently glorifying elements, -man, man and man.
Abhijit Naskar
#4. I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#5. I'm not a size zero, I'll never be a size zero, and the number of fucks I give about that is zero.
Lauren Gallagher
#6. When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette Davis
#7. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte Bronte
#8. I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#9. Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.
Mahnaz Afkhami
#10. Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path ... Male strength
the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.
Emma Thompson
#11. I think all women should be able to make it on their own," Frankie said. "It's not about needing a man
or not - it just means she knows she can do whatever she sets out to do.
Lindsay Smith
#12. The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
Oprah Winfrey
#13. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.
Miya Yamanouchi
#14. An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)
Pearl S. Buck
#15. She will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise.
Nikki Rowe
#16. It is only upon life's new journey & pathway that your greatest learning - will be experienced.
Eleesha
#17. If you don't have the courage to confront, you don't have the right to complain.
Don't wait until anger gives you the courage!
Debra Fox
#19. Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.
Lucy H. Pearce
#20. We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
Beyonce Knowles
#21. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn't want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.
Emma Watson
#22. 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.
Joyce Banda
#23. Stand in Your Power: When a woman stands in her power and speaks her truth from the heart, it brings balance into the Universe and the opportunity to connect fully with Divine source
Teresa Proctor
#24. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
#25. Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.
Khloe Kardashian
#27. Sexual agency is about being able to define your sexuality by the decisions you yourself make, and NOT by the perceptions, expectations or opinions of others.
Miya Yamanouchi
#29. When you make things too easy on someone, you're giving them a discount on your worth; and this causes them to regard you as inferior.
K.M.Docherty
#30. It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#31. Women's Book of Empowerment: 323 Affirmations That Change Everyday Problems into Moments of Potential.
Charlene M. Proctor
#32. I took one look at him, my mouth started watering and my panties moistened with thick fluid as if he had touched my sensation and made me instantaneously combust.
Siva D.
#33. Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#34. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
Christopher Hitchens
#35. The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
Christine De Pizan
#36. We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.
Chris Bowen
#37. She wasn't ordinary, I liked her that way. Mystery oozed from her pours as she walked so lightly I could have mistaken her for an angel.
Nikki Rowe
#38. let the stars inside you breathe,
before the darkness swallows them whole.
let them burn through your skin and light this
whole goddamn world on fire.
AVA.
#39. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane Austen
#40. Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
Annie Lennox
#41. Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins
#42. President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.
Lael Brainard
#43. I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte Bronte
#44. It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.
Kofi Annan
#45. As women in today's society, we are encouraged to compare ourselves to other women when what we need to do is focus on our own strengths, our own capabilities, our own beauty.
Cameron Diaz
#46. A sequoia seedling is always a sequoia at every point along its path to becoming a towering tree. And so are you always an empowered, fulfilled woman on your way to even greater empowerment and fulfillment.
Ali Binazir
#47. I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.
Maureen Chiquet
#48. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
Coco Chanel
#49. The Women's March did what it set out to do and that is to show the sheer magnitude of passion that the female voice can project and most importantly, for our future generations, it has shattered the falsity of the patriarch myth that women do not support other women.
Aysha Taryam
#50. There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Greta Garbo
#51. Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.
Jess
#53. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#55. Dare to be bold and brave, my BEAUTIFUL QUEENS. Dare to believe that you can. Dare to make your dreams a reality. Dare to get out of your comfort zone and soar! Dare to live your life limitlessly. Dare to be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin. DARE.
Stephanie Lahart
#56. The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.
Emilie Buchwald
#57. She would use her sexuality, but she would make it hers. She would use her beauty not to appeal to their desire, but to strike fear in the hearts of men.
Matt K. Turner
#58. Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away.
Nikki Rowe
#59. There is a need for promoting women's sexual agency in today's society, because if it wasn't an issue, terms such as 'female sexual empowerment' would be made redundant. The fact that we merely have this vocabulary is indicative of that.
Miya Yamanouchi
#60. For all the girls in all the worlds.
May you feel strength with your first breath,
realize your unlimited potential for greatness on your second, and follow your dreams on your third.
C.S. O'Kelly
#61. What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
Anne Frank
#62. That's right. Watch closely, so there's no fucking way you can miss how indisputably beautiful you are, because I don't intend to argue about this again. The next time I tell you you're gorgeous, you're going to say, 'Damn right I am.
Samanthe Beck
#63. This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.
Maureen Chiquet
#64. India can progress only by the reinforcement of the women.
Abhijit Naskar
#65. I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
Anais Nin
#66. Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
Dalia Mogahed
#67. show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin.
AVA.
#68. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf
#69. Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.
Betty Friedan
#70. I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#71. You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.
Sharon Law Tucker
#72. 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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#73. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#74. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.
Charlotte Bronte
#75. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
Hans Rosling
#76. If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#78. Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#79. The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears.
PatriciaV. Davis
#80. Sometimes, Dolores, sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang onto.
Stephen King
#81. He was all sin and mystery, and Miranda feared the pleasures he offered as she feared the fires of hell. Yet when she succumbed at last, it was not because her body was weak but because her mind was curious.
Anya Seton
#82. It's called an inner voice for a reason. It's the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It's the one voice in your life that isn't tampered by other's biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.
Hope Alcocer
#83. Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.
Lisa Bloom
#84. Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
Kangana Ranaut
#85. You have women generals? She goes into combat? And you let her?"
"What you'll learn, lad, is that you don't let the females of the Southlands do a damn thing. You simply get out of their way or pray they don't run you down.
G.A. Aiken
#88. Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.
Maya Angelou
#89. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia Woolf
#91. The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter.
T.R. Johnson
#92. When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!
Lasean Rinique
#93. Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.
Maya Rodale
#94. Men tend to treat women as fragile creatures, but our bodies were built to withstand pain and hard work, think with profound insight. We were created to do what men can't. And if that isn't reason enough for us to be treated equal, I'm not sure what is.
Caroline George
#96. I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.
Kelly Cutrone
#97. Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Virginia Woolf
#98. No glass ceiling was ever shattered by a whiner.
Melanie Hope
#99. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)
Aung San Suu Kyi
#100. Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.
Narendra Modi
