Quotes About Empowerment

I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.'

I'm graduating and I'm 23 years old, so I can do whatever the hell I want.

I am more than my measurements. I'm not Ashley Graham just because I'm curvy.

I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.

I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren't for me. It was somebody else's vision and somebody else's dream and somebody else's artistic endeavor, but it didn't necessarily fit in my grand scheme.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.

I've heard complaints from women all over the country that plus-size clothes aren't sexy enough. You know, I'm a grandma, but I don't want to look like a grandma! I want to feel confident and sexy in the clothes. I like my stuff tapered and well-fitted, not all boxy.

My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to make sure we could have our own space.

My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK for little boys to sew potholders.

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

My entire life, my grandmother told me I could do whatever I set my mind to.

Now my grandmother, who used to want sons, says that she does not really want boys anymore. She says I'm the lion of the family.

My grandmother probably never thought she would see a day where, you know, a young black woman would be seen as a leader, which is incredible.

Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential.

You can't take me for granted!

The true wrestling fans that watch TNA Impact, I think they've always known. I don't want to say they take it for granted in anyway, but they always just know that TNA and Impact Wrestling are going to give them women's wrestling.

Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp, or they think of them as European or Russian and kind of their nose up in the air. So, it's cool for me to, like, sit with them and for them to really see themselves as me.

I like the grass roots people the most.

I'm a campaigner for grass roots because I am a product of the grass roots system and I would like every child to have the same opportunities I was lucky enough to enjoy.

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.