Quotes About Empowerment

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

It's not just about fashion and confidence in what you look like. It's confidence in anything you do. It's knowing you're the best, knowing you're bound to be great, killing it in every aspect of life.

I didn't have boundaries when I was growing up. I knew the difference between right and wrong, and all the things a kid needs to know, but nobody ever said to me, 'You can't do that, because that's not what girls are supposed to do. That's more of a boy thing.'

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

There are reasons to set boundaries for yourself, but there are also reasons to keep doors open.

The more I get into this industry the more I kind of see that it'll take as much as you give. So for me, setting boundaries is sometimes saying no, and just being like, 'Actually I don't want to do that' even though people might in my situation say yes.

You have to be very good at setting boundaries for yourself, so you're not taken advantage of.

The women's game has come on leaps and bounds.

I'm not going to bow down to anybody, not going to back away from anybody.

It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

Women drive box office.

Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

Boxing has always been like a sanctuary for me. It's been a place that I could go and be somebody.

Boxing gave me self-confidence that I didn't have growing up. When I was young, I was super quiet and I didn't trust anybody. I didn't like having friends.

Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.

I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.

Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.

Parents need to sit down with their boys and girls and tell them how to carry themselves and tell the boys how to respect women and respect yourself and know who you are.

Bras are like accessories to me.