Zainab Salbi Quotes

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

You don't run a feminist agenda and achieve political power.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.

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.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Leave women to find their sphere.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.