Quotes About Empowerment

The Internet empowers people to have a direct impact on an emergency situation on a global scale.

CoverGirl putting my face on such an international scale did make a huge leap forward for men in makeup and for boys in beauty and for anybody wanting to express themselves.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

We just can't scare our kids by living in fear.

When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

I'm not scary anymore.

Learning how to drive was a scary thing.

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.

I like being behind the scene.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

I can't live my life according to anyone else's schedule.

Everybody can be who they are within the scheme of the Seahawks and what we want to do.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

I want to see more sci-fi with black people.

Girls need to see somebody that looks like them talking about science and technology.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

Scores of little girls are going to run into school the following day and say, 'Did you see Fran Kirby last night?' That for me is as important as winning the game.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.