Girl Power

The phrase "girl power", as a term of empowerment, expressed a cultural phenomenon of the 1990s and early 2000s (decade). It is also linked to third-wave feminism. The term was made popular by the Spice Girls in the mid-to-late 1990s.

Read more about Girl Power:  Early Usage, Spice Girls and Scholarship

Famous quotes containing the words girl and/or power:

    “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    “The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)