Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

I want to empower women.

I wanted to help women and their families.

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realise their full potential.

I do feel I have a responsibility to empower women and to inspire them.

The BJP is certainly for empowerment of women.

I believe that raising the status of women in Turkey is a responsibility shared by everyone. It is not only in Turkey; we are still in need of serious support for the role of women in business and society all around the world.

My foundation is absolutely about the women we work with, and they are contributing every day to their families, to their communities, and to the economy of their countries. All we are doing is enabling them to be the best that they can be.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

When women succeed, America succeeds.

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

Empowering women means trusting them.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

I'm very excited to be teaming up with Merck for the 'Lets Go There' Campaign. It's a really important campaign to me because it's something that celebrates women.

I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.