Woman Empowerment Quotes

#1. A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated - and turned out to grass.

Pearl S. Buck

#2. Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.

Gwenda Bond

#3. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

Ellen DuBois

#5. I needed to begin respecting my own body's boundaries. I had to draw clear lines. Ones that were sound in my mind and therefore impermeable, and would always, no matter where I walked, protect me.

Moving forward, I wanted rules.

Aspen Matis

#6. There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

Aristophanes

#7. Where a woman's faith in herself ends; so too does her joy.

David Hallett

#8. No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Wilkie Collins

#9. I define me. You don't.

Miya Yamanouchi

#10. For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

Policarpa Salavarrieta

#12. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf

#13. If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Elizabeth I

#14. But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

Julian Of Norwich

#15. Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.

Nikki Rowe

#16. 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." -

Clare Boothe Luce

#17. Our generation of women is clearing the path for our daughters, granddaughters, women and girls down the line, to be safe to be the woman or girl they are.

Tabby Biddle

#18. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

Robert Burns

#19. Burning Woman is a powerful image. A role model. A metaphor. A warning. A source of power. She is Feminine power incarnate.

Lucy H. Pearce

#20. If we are to be women in power, then it must be power on very different terms. we have to find a new source of energy. New structures of power. Ones that don't deplete us or our environment. We need to run our lives on sustainable energy.

Lucy H. Pearce

#21. Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.

Shahla Khan

#22. I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.

Aspen Matis

#23. I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins. I'm going back to the starting line.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#24. To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#25. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf

#26. It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.

Aspen Matis

#27. 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

#28. I was so much more powerful than anyone knew. I was an animal learning to fight back, instinctively, fiercely. I was a brave girl. I was a fit fox.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

Aspen Matis

#29. 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

#30. I was born a strong, powerful woman, but was raised to be a victim.

Sharon Law Tucker

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

Anais Nin

#32. Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.

Jess

#33. If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to the extent of implying a glandular abnormality or sexual perversion.

Germaine Greer

#34. There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

Helene D. Gayle

#35. I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw - the shame wasn't mine, it was his, and I could stop misrepresenting myself, and I could accept myself.

Aspen Matis

#36. While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

Lisa See

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Bette Davis

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#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. 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

#45. 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

#46. Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

Anthony Carmona

#47. A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime.

John Stevenson

#48. Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#49. I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew.

Aspen Matis

#50. She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.

Nikki Rowe

#51. To all the women I say, don't ask to be saved by anyone, "my brave baghinis" (tigresses). Remember, if you deem yourselves as sheeps, men will treat you as such, but if you deem yourselves as tigresses, then you are the ones who will shape humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#52. I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

Emma Watson