Quotes About Empowerment

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

The real Annie Malone was not a light-skinned woman.

I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.

I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different... and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person... there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.

If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

I think I'm a feminist, hopefully by example. I just feel it's important to do as much as I can as a woman, to the best of my ability.

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.

Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I'm a big fan of corsets. A woman's body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.

What woman doesn't want to feel comfortable in a swimsuit? It's incredibly empowering.

For me, taking care of your health is the first step towards empowerment whether you're a man or a woman.

It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.