232 Quotes About Female-empowerment

You change the world, but the world changes you, too. There’s no getting around it. I have to survive here, no matter what it costs me.

If she’s lucky, she’ll grow up to be a decent person instead of the wife of a feudal lord.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

Neglect of women is the major cause for the society’s downfall. The man and the woman are the two wheels of the society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress. There will be hope for the well-being of the entire world only if the humans, men and women alike, stop deeming the women as some kind of inferior creatures. We, the responsible citizens of the world can build a better future for the entire species, only by improving the condition of the women.

What exactly was it about Egypt that encouraged women rulers to set their caps so high? The historian Herodotus proposed that things were just different there: 'The people, in most of their manners and customs, exactly reverse the common practice of mankind. For example women attend the markets and trade, while men sit at home at the loom..., Women urinate standing up, men sitting down....

Your dreams (no matter how big) will forever be dreams if you don’t find the courage and persistence in bringing them to life.

Women are more powerful than most of us give ourselves credit for. When we actually decide to stop the jealousy and the finger pointing, and band together to laugh with one another and understand one another, it's like a beautiful firework display on the Fourth of July in Vegas, baby!

Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative

It’s because our friendships – female friendships are just a hop to our sisterhood, and sisterhood can be a very powerful force, to give the world … the things that humans desperately need