Brooke Shields Quotes

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

Any woman that is willing to take control of their life and do what they want to do to make their living, I have a lot of respect for.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

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

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

Today's women are not dependent, and I think it's the biggest sense of freedom.

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

My mother insists women must have financial independence, which is why I completed my degree in medicine.

The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

The new woman is essentially an independent labour unit whose energy is used not to serve the interests of a private family economy, but to perform socially useful and necessary labour.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Svatantra's journey began with a vision to make women in rural areas self-sustainable.

I think every woman should have the skills and confidence to be able to earn a living. A working woman is happy because she has goals beyond herself and her needs.

Girls throughout the world should be able to make decisions about their own lives. If they have the opportunity to attend school, they will become independent and strong.

While Airbnb cannot singlehandedly level the playing field for women, I believe we can play a role in enabling women around the world to follow their passions and design the lives they want.

When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

We sell the movies. Women need to know they are an asset and they are the ones who should be making the money.