Quotes About Empowerment

Now, with the Hurt Business, this is my chance to let loose. Before, when I was frustrated, I couldn't let it out. Sometimes being a bad dude just feels a lot better.

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

It is frustrating that religion in general includes components that treat women as a support system for a man rather than a leader or equal player in the relationship.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway.

I don't like feeling like it's not up to me when I'm working and when I'm not. Not feeling complete freedom... that's frustrating.

I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

I know when I was a kid I saw only one color of beauty, I saw only one kind in all the billboards and all magazines and the video clips. One kind and it was so frustrating.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

I stopped eating for emotional pleasure and started eating to fuel my body.

Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear, or disappointment fuel your drive to be great.

I think any time you get a boost of confidence, it fuels you to do more, and that kept happening for me.

There are things out of my control and that fuels my fire.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

I will do my best to share my vision with children and youth to support them in fulfilling their dreams.

That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.

Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential - for themselves and for their country.