“When Brazil’s first ever minister of Indigenous peoples met with TIME in September, she was speaking on a panel at iconic London private members club Annabel’s alongside activist Txai Suruí, having just been in New York for Climate Week. The Indigenous Voices panel was facilitated by The Caring Fami…”— ARMANI SYED, time.com
“I would say that it's much easier to play chess without the burden of an Adam's Apple.”— Allan Scott, Beth Harmon, Anya Taylor-Joy, imdb.com
“March is Female Empowerment Month. If you’re looking for ways to celebrate the women in your life, spend some time with them, send them a heartfelt message, or gift them something they’ll appreciate:”— Kelly Peacock, Thought Catalog, thoughtcatalog.com
“Like me, the rest of the internet can't stop praising Aimee's storyline and the bus scene in particular.”— Nora Dominick , BuzzFeed, buzzfeed.com
“I love the whole female empowerment shit, I kind of invented it in the '90s, I was the original bass player in Bikini Kill.”— Lindy West, Aidy Bryant, Gabe, John Cameron Mitchell, imdb.com
“The support needs to come not just from women, but from men as well, because it’s gonna take all of us to correct our past mistakes, and for people to reach their dreams without it feeling like it’s gonna take a whole 10-plus years for us to make some real progress.”— Janelle Monae, latimes.com
“Although the show might pack its message of heroics in a cartoon that features a group of villainous amoebas and a monkey set on destroying the world, Natalie Palamides, who voices the current Buttercup, acknowledged that the show's themes are an important one for viewers to see.”— Lauren Rearick, teenvogue.com
“Do I wish for women to be this entitled, this free to subject total strangers to their whims? I do, or at least I wish for a critical mass of women to behave like this in public so we purge the cultural stereotype.”— Hanna Rosin, thecut.com
“There is nothing more dangerous than a girl who is aware of the flames inside her, and all the damage she can do.”— Nikita Gill, amazon.com
“The myth of female empowerment has always been on a collision course with the reality.”— Lisa Miller, thecut.com
“There is no greater threat to the critics, cynics, and fearmongers than a woman who is willing to fall because she has learned how to rise.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“We need less fear and more courage, less performance and more experience.”— Erica Louise Shugart, psiloveyou.xyz
“Don't tell me how to feel Or say that you're for real My mind's made up, I'm cool without you You got no more appeal Now this girl don't need no man Says what she can do what she can Now I live for me Boy, does that make you weep?”— Britney Spears, open.spotify.com
“You have value as precisely as who you are right now. Figure out what that value is rather than faking another value.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“I think we romanticize our careers and origin stories in the same way we romanticize love, and I think we have to stop having that kind of language around our lives and professional lives. It makes you think that if you don’t know it, you can’t do it. It’s important to actually stumble around a lot.”— Jenn Romolini, girlsnightinclub.com
“In 2000, there were 11 female billionaires on the planet, according to Forbes; by 2016, there were 190.”— Robert Frank, nytimes.com
“Women want the triple win — money, meaning and mobility...they want the big dollars. But they also want to do something that adds value. And they want freedom and flexibility.”— Julia Pimsleur, nytimes.com
“Of the nearly 27,000 women in the world worth $30 million or more, a third are self-made.”— Robert Frank, nytimes.com
“That a female trailblazer in music, business and popular culture wasn’t up on the feminist conversation du jour reveals where Parton came from: a place where a woman’s strength and independence is more about walk than talk.”— Sarah Smarsh, theguardian.com