Quotes about Empowerment

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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. — William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Women are never so strong as after their defeat. — Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. — Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."(From a speech — Aung San Suu Kyi
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rath — Arthur Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy
In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine cr — Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The gre — Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sak — Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a p — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howl — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God? — Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of v — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fan — Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you — Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful — Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant — John Stevenson