Empowering Women Quotes - Page 12

• We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

  Malala Yousafzai

  Ideas, House, Empowering

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• We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Girl, Health, Impact

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• Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Sisterhood, Men

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

  Alex Comfort

  Beauty, Her Beauty, Assets

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• More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Equality, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you empower women, you can change the world.

  Meg Ryan

  Empowering, World, Ifs

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• I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.

  Robin Roberts

  Determination, Discipline, Empowering

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• There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength it’s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now we’re making them unpopular again.

  Danai Gurira

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

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• We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.

  Muhtar Kent

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

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• I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Women, Empowering

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

  Margaret Chan

  Agency, Organization, Voice

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• I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen

  India.Arie

  Love, Girl, Queens

  Song: Video, Album: Acoustic Soul

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• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Airplane, Sisterhood

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• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sisterhood, Media

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Fighting, Hygiene

  "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007.

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• Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  What Matters, Empowering, Healthy

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• The courage to try something new makes me proud.

  Jane Pauley

  Empowering, Trying, Proud

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• High heels empower women in a way.

  Christian Louboutin

  High Heels, Empowering, Way

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• Women are damn resilient.

  Jill Abramson

  Empowering, Resilient, Damn

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• I want to empower women.

  Alexander McQueen

  Empowering, Want

  "10 Reasons To See Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the V&A". www.elle.com. March 07, 2015.

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• Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Believe, Government, Empowering

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• In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

  Esra Saydam

  Issues, Empowering, Our Society

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.

  Ben Harper

  Song, Empowering, Feelings

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• Empowering women means trusting them.

  Isabel Allende

  Mean, Empowering

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