Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

For me, growth and empowerment are about giving a woman a choice.

It's about knowing yourself and what you're good at. Females, males - anyone can be anything they want to be.

Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

I want to be an integrated woman.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

Education liberates a woman.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Women are no longer being defined by where they were born or their colour. That's huge.

When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.