Quotes About Empowerment

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.

When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.

I want to impact the world and the culture in a positive way, spread super dope messages and help people through my music.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

I truly believe that getting dressed in the morning is about deciding who you want to be, what you're saying in the world, and how you want people to see you. It's so much more than superficial.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.

A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment.

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous.

Perhaps all the dragons of your life are princesses, who are only waiting for us to show a little beauty and courage. Perhaps at the very bottom every horror is something helpless, that wants help from us

The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something infinitely great, the extreme limit of his strength.

Wenn der Alltag dir arm erscheint, klage ihn nicht an – klage dich an, daß du nicht stark genug bist, seine Reichtümer zu rufen, denn für den Schaffenden gibt es keine Armut.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself, something that makes one think, not of any complement and limit, but only of life and existence: the feminine human being. - Rilke

If what you're drinking is bitter, let yourself be the wine.