1. We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.-Beyonce
2. Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation.-Narendra Modi
3. Empowering women is key to building a future we want.-Amartya Sen
4. A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.-Melinda Gates
5. The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.-Forest Whitaker
6. Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the smart thing to do.-Barack Obama
7. A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.-Eleanor Roosevelt
8. If you empower women, you can change the world.-Meg Ryan
9. Women have to harness their power it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.-Cher
10. We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.-Sheryl Sandberg
11. Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.-Steven Pinker
12. As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.-Steven Pinker
13. When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.-Joy Bryant
14. If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.-Greg Mortenson
15. A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.-Nancy Rathburn
16. Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.-Alicia Keys
17. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.-Diane Mariechild
18. If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.-Sheryl Wudunn
19. I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!-Robert Ballard
20. The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.-Aung San Suu Kyi
21. Empowering women means trusting them.-Isabel Allende
22. If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.-Melinda Gates
23. Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.-Annie Lennox
24. We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.-Waris Dirie
25. The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.-Steve Maraboli
26. Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.-Margaret Sanger
27. That’s not to say that women’s priorities are better than men’s. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.-Dee Dee Myers
28. Empowering women isn’t for women, but for the world.-Amy Richards
29. 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.-Margaret Chan