Quotes about Empowerment
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
— Amy Grant
Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
— Zendaya
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
— Shirley Chisholm
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
— Shirley Chisholm
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
— Al Gore
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
— Gloria Steinem
Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
— Marianne Williamson
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe the gun has no power at all.
— Malala Yousafzai
I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.
— Diane von Furstenberg