Female Empowerment Quotes - Page 2

• We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Strong Women, Believe, Home

  "A Mme. Curie From The Bronx" by Elizabeth Stone, www.nytimes.com. 1978.

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• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Country, Strong Women

  1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.

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• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, Strong Women

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• I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

  Laura Vandervoort

  Feminist, Empowerment, Female

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• Right now the topic of female empowerment is at the forefront of conversation and it's important we take advantage of the trend while there is added pressure to adjust long-standing beliefs, prejudices, and cultural discrimination.

  Gillian Anderson

  Long, Empowerment, Important

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• I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Knowing, Empowerment, Ordinary

  Source: collider.com

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• It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones.

  Demi Moore

  People, Empowerment, Female

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• Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

  Ariel Winter

  Book, Men, Nerd

  "Voicing THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: Ariel Winter". Interview, www.dccomics.com. September 25, 2012.

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• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Reality, Empowerment

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• Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

  Abigail Adams

  Daughter, Mother, Fine

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.419

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• I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

  Nicki Minaj

  Mother, Successful, Empowerment

  "Nicki Minaj's naughty gift for Lil Wayne". Details magazine interview, www.rap-up.com. April 19, 2010.

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Cutting, Men, Curves

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• From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

  Rose McGowan

  Empowerment, Age, Underdog

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jun 09, 2012

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• 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

  Mom, Lonely, Real

  "Kelly Cutrone Speaks To Storked!". Interview with Christine Coppa, www.glamour.com. February 23, 2010.

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• One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Ideas, Issues

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