Quotes About Empowerment

I have been captain in the past and I know what it takes to gel a team and get it going.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to define your gender and sexuality in a way that feels safe and right for you.

We're still stuck in male, female, feminism. I don't believe in, you know... I believe in gender equality.

There are challenging days - but I'd tell people they should really do what they are interested in and not think about their gender.

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.

It shouldn't matter what gender you are but that's where we are right now and it's a battle.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything - I've just got to get on with it.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Gender rules were made to be broken, especially if you have been told throughout history that you're 'less than.'

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

I never had an issue with gender.

Gender is not central to coding.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.