Quotes about Empowerment
Also, despite the belief of population experts that uneducated women wouldn't use birth control, these women knew very well when their own bodies were suffering from too many pregnancies and births. That's why as prime minister, Indira Gandhi took on the controversy of creating the first national family planning program. Her early journeys in those women-only cars had taught her that ordinary women would use it, even if in secret, and literacy had little to do with it.
— Gloria Steinem
Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!
— Gloria Steinem
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; A movement is only people moving.
— Gloria Steinem
The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.
— Gloria Steinem
Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
— Gordon Hinckley
I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.
— Gordon Hinckley
When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.
— Gordon Hinckley
A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.
— Gordon Hinckley
Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself
— Gordon Hinckley
Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.
— Gordon Hinckley
We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
— Gordon Hinckley
It is so tremendously important that the women of the Church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the plan of the Lord. They must begin in their own homes. They can teach it in their classes. They can voice it in their communities. They must be the teachers and the guardians of their daughters. When you save a girl, you save generations. I see this as one bright shining hope in a world that is marching toward moral self-destruction.
— Gordon Hinckley