Quotes About Empowerment

In places like the U.S. and Germany, women's professional boxing is already quite big, but I'd like to be the name that makes it bigger and gives it more global appeal.

Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.

My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have their own money and are able to support themselves, they can make choices about what happens to them in their lives, about whether they have education, whether they get married, and what happens to their children.

I would never want to get married.

There's always an assumption that when the girls get married they don't want to work.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

I didn't want to get married.

Whenever I get married in future, I will continue to work.

I'll get married when I'm bloody ready!

I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.

I love getting dressed in New York - I feel so much more confident wearing things that are a little bit crazy.

Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.

I feel career women should avoid getting married.

I was a girl who was told that girls should not have their voice. I was from a conservative Muslim family where they only think about their daughters getting married.

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

I am from the ghetto.

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.

Natalie Massenet

I'd like to be a giant enabler.