Quotes About Empowerment

I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.

The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.

Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.

You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very much with believing in yourself and giving time. Giving time to each member of the family.

What I have done is packaged the time-honored information into a process that is doable and has inspired millions to act on it.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

I played Luke Skywalker. Every time we played, I was Luke Skywalker. Nobody else could be Luke Skywalker.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws...

We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls

Some things just are. They can't be changed or undone or fixed.But people-people can heal. Even from events they believe are unendurable.

People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for some else to save them.