Quotes About Empowerment

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it." [Misattributed to Baden Powell the English mathematician and Church of England priest. Properly attributed Sir Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scout Movement]

I feel like 'Power Rangers' as just a franchise and as a message in itself is taking down the barrier of putting a certain look to a certain thing, right?

'Power Rangers' has changed a lot of lives.

If I could, I'd change the way I came up through the football ranks. I'd love to have had an academy life the way the boys have it. I think female footballers would be so much better for having that opportunity, and we'd be more effective because we would be better players.

You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

Since 1987, there are now many more of us as at the higher levels with families, so I think, as role models, we are encouraging more women to stay within banking and rise up through the ranks.

Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

I believe in female rap.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

I love that twinkly, girl rap. I've always loved that.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

I want to show other girls how happy I am and how confident I am, how I still want to go to school and I still want to rap.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.

I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.

What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.

My parents tried to sell me. I was looking for a way to share my feelings, so I started to rap to talk about the painful experience of being a girl.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Before I came out, there was no such thing as a black conciousness movement. Kids on the street didn't know who Malcom X or Martin Luther King was until rap let them know.

I loved English and I tell kids that without English I wouldn't be able to rap.

Rap music was a savior to me.