Quotes About Empowerment

You decide how to show up, and you'd better come correct: the way you look, what you say, how you act and react. No excuses! Get in front of the mirror and own what you see. You may have to drag your fabulousness out of hiding, but it's there.

I have to worry how other women and girls will react to my music. Will they really understand the message that I'm trying to put out there?

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

Quite frankly, I talk about the fact that I'm a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do, it gets huge reaction, and media reacts, and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I'm a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it, because that's where we want to get to.

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

Trolls want reactions. Don't become a bully because they're bullying you!

The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

'Ebony' is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

I want my readers to find their own way.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.