Quotes About Empowerment

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that's beautiful, too.

It's so important for us to write complex, realistic women because that's what we are.

I don't believe stuff should be made for the perfect model. I think that's where we go wrong right now in this day and age: We make stuff that's not realistic. I always told myself, if I ever did a fashion show, I'm not going to have models. I'm going to have regular-sized women.

We never deal with propaganda. We never deal with politics. We never deal with newspaper headlines. We deal with the harsh realities of our lives. We will only comment when there is more bread to eat, more space in which to move, time in which to open your mouth and sing. As long as these things have not happened, we do not talk about politics.

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

There's a lot that the city can do, and it depends on having a partnership with community members who are living the realities.

I just want people to know the reality, and I want people to see the world as it really is - the world is our playground, and we can do anything we want to do on it. Everyone else needs to see it that way - there are no real rules.

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.

If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

I've been, like, the mom of Google.

I don't get cute, I get drop-dead gorgeous.

You can be whatever size and still look beautiful if you are radiating from the inside out, then people are going to think 'oh she looks gorgeous.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

You gotta have a body.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

I really believe you've gotta put the power in the people. They're the ones who are gonna make the experience.

Before you can lead anybody else, you gotta put yourself in the right position to be successful.

Baby, everything I have I've worked for and gotten myself.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.