Quotes About Empowerment

Since I was younger, I've always had the same body. Older guys would always be like, 'Oh you a stallion.' I finally had to ask, like, is that a good thing? Everybody pretty much took it and ran with it, and then I put it as my main name on Twitter. Ever since then everybody's just been calling me Stallion.

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

Yeah, I would go to New England Conservatory a lot. My orchestra teacher ran a program for minority students there.

I put my name out there and ran for public service because I want more inclusion, diversity, and opportunity... I will fight for those values.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

I really hope that, as the first male CoverGirl, that I am able to inspire others and give other people confidence to try out makeup! Hey, if a random 17-year-old guy can do it, you definitely can, too!

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books, but maybe in a more ambitious way.

Cate Blanchett and others, they get this broad range of all these cool people they can play. Some women really do get it all. For me, it is the same thing that happens over and over. I should change that and maybe write my own thing.

The 'SheTrades' programme aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020 with a campaign, a focussed networking app, and a range of international and national information resources.

I have to congratulate L'Oreal on its True Match foundation range. It's my go-to foundation, and I absolutely love it.

I literally have people go, 'Oh my God, you're the Pink Power Ranger' and I'm like, 'I do other things!' But, you know, it's so cool! I saved the world for a year.

The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.

I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

We'll get way further if we educate people and not lock them up.

When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.

This healthy eating stuff, it's here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.

When you love someone deeply, you give strength, and when you are loved deeply, you gain courage.

I personally feel a responsibility to demonstrate to that we girls have the power to not only gain equality for women but all sectors of society.

Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.

I gained this new sense of control over my love life because when I called myself a 'man repeller,' you assumed that being single is my choice. I'm man-repelling because that's how I want to dress. I'm not single because no men like me. I'm single because I choose fashion over a relationship.