Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.
Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
We must act in unison and rising above politics on the question of development of the country and empowerment of the youth to raise them as future leader in every field of our national life.
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
I found out there is a production paradise in Brazil. I was able to make my second collection for less money but without sacrificing quality. More importantly, manufacturing in Brazil also fits in with my global initiative: to provide work and empowerment in a third-world country.
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.
What should matter is whether I stand for female empowerment, and I don't think there are many women out there who have any doubts about that.
As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
