Belinda Johnson Quotes

In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

Let us recommit to supporting every girl to develop her skills, enter the workforce on equal terms, and reach her full potential.

If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.

Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

If you wish the Jews to become better men and useful citizens, then banish every humiliating restriction, open to them every avenue of gaining a livelihood.

I'm ready to move on to the next chapter of my life in which I will redouble my efforts to empower women in the workplace.

You have to have the same power to lead the life you want as a man does, and that means earning the same amount of money. We still have a battle on our hands with that.

There have always been men of all background and ethnicities on my father's job sites. And long before it was commonplace, you also saw women.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

In many households today, the woman is also a bread winner and with this financial independence comes the power of making choices.

Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.

If I can encourage other women to think about setting up their own businesses and being entrepreneurs and making a contribution then I think that's a good thing.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.