Quotes About Empowerment

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

We're hyper-focused on providing the business infrastructure to allow creators to be successful in growing and running their businesses.

Providing a high-quality education for all Alabamians, at every stage of life, is my goal.

I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book to pitch and is proving to be a lot of fun to put together.

I tried put everything I had into doing something and proving that MS wasn't going to hold me back and kissing goodbye to MS.

A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.

Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.

That's what I really love about glamour and drag; it's about celebrating femininity and fun, while being really provocative.

I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.

I want to do roles that provoke us to think differently or realise ourselves in a new light. Characters of women who have an interesting story to tell. I'd love to do a period film, an action film, a character study.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it.

We're seeing more of the female psyche on screen than we used to.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there's something around me protecting me.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally, culturally, or economically.

My book 'Things Get Better' has normalised the idea that it's OK to fail and it's OK to seek professional help from psychologists.

There's a lot of psychology involved in my work, a lot of mind play going on when you try and convince someone to feel good about their bodies and have the confidence to walk down a catwalk naked when, initially at least, it's probably the last thing they'd plan to do.

I was going through puberty and was much curvier than other girls, which made me insecure. Then I saw J. Lo on the cover of 'Latina' magazine, and she embraced those curves and was proud of who she was.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.