Top ten quotes for women empowerment

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1.Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family. 

                                                             -A. Cripp

2.I raise up my voice – not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

                                            – Malala Yousafzai

3. I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

                                                   -William Golding


 4. Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

                                -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. 

                                               -Virginia Woolf

6. Woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

                                           -  Eleanor Roosevelt

7.Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

                                            – Maya Angelou    

 

8. Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

                                         -Simone de Beauvoir 

9. Women, we endure those cuts in so many ways that we don’t even notice we’re cut. We are living with small tiny cuts, and we are bleeding every single day. And we’re still getting up.
                                          – Michelle Obama    
      10. As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
                                              ― Virginia Woolf 
                  

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