Quotes About Empowerment

We went to a conference to learn how to get out of debt and we did it and it is really freeing.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

I'm so proud that now you can exist as a gay man and be an Olympian, and it can be beneficial rather than negative. So it's amazing. And I just think I feel so liberated now that I've been out of the closet for a while, and so I'm free in that I just get to be myself, speak freely, act freely, and I think that I am competing confidently.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

Too frequently, we see women being pitted against each other.

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

My parents would watch movies like 'Big' and 'Freaky Friday,' and I wanted to see that kind of story told from an African-American angle. So I had the idea for 'Little,' and then I told my parents, and we all fleshed it out together.

I don't think it's right for anyone to turn around and say 'stop drinking so much, don't eat fried food.'

I can live my life, I can be at Disneyland and eat fried chicken, and that's my choice.

My body's my best friend.

Let me just make a stand that our friends and family in the LGBTQIA-plus community have the right to take up space in our society.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

I feel that Indian women are too frightened. They all say, 'I can't do this, I can't do that.' Worse, their families don't support them.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.

We believe in the wisdom of the front lines.

It's liberating and rewarding to see your own ideas coming to fruition.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.