Quotes About Empowerment

I would love to do a project with all of my female friends and create something from scratch and have some female-driven story with the women in my life who are so strong, confident, and beautiful inside and out.

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

These kinds of scripts telling the stories of women are very rare.

I am deeply moved by sculptures of powerful women.

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

The way that I play is, I'm in the driver's seat.

I'm not running for anything but my own seat.

I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

Everybody wants a seat at the table, but nobody wants to give up space.

Sometimes when somebody wants to take the lead it's nice to take a back seat.

I never had any hang-ups about playing a secondary role.

Being a woman leader is secondary to me - and should be to others.

When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.

If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

Security for women needs to focussed on every section of the society.

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

We all need to decide what makes it safe and secure on the Internet. It can't be anybody else's decision. We have to have a voice.

I'm a lot more secure than I used to be.