Madeleine Albright Quotes

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.

In my opinion, empowerment is when women have the chance to do what they want to do and the courage to do what they want.

I want to help lift women's voices. And I realize, in doing that, I need to use my own.

Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can. But why don't you trust women? Why doesn't Donald Trump trust women to make this choice for themselves? That's what we ought to be doing in public life. Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitement, convincing other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.

The serious problems facing the world... will only be solved if women have a seat at the table and are listened to as to what is required. These issues will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families and their global and local communities.

Empowering women means trusting them.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

The idea of women having a complete hold on their lives is still alien in a lot of places. So, it is important that we keep telling such stories where women are shown both physically and mentally powerful.

I want women to know all around the world that they have the power!

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.

Women are very special. I think it's a very special time because a lot of things are coming out and I think that's good for our society and I think it is very, very good for women. And I'm very happy a lot of these things are coming out. And I am very happy - I'm very happy it's being exposed.

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.