Quotes About Empowerment

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.

To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.

I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there's space for all of us to be who we are. There's space for us to celebrate each other and root for each other and not take each other down.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ, you have everything.

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.

No one can insist me to wear skimpy costumes and to act in steamy scenes just for the sake of pulling more audience to cinema halls.

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

We know the risks of birth control, and yet we continue to pump it into our system as if we have no choice.

I try to tell myself something encouraging to get myself pumped for the day.

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have to write the best books we possibly can and hope that, once the pink covers and Bridget Jones have faded from memory, we might finally be allowed just to be called writers.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

If somebody tells you to lose weight, it is like a punch in the face.

When, no matter what you do, everybody's going to punch holes in it, then you just go and you do what you want. And that's the most freeing place to be.

Pulling punches because someone happens to be a woman is disgusting.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.