Quotes About Empowerment

Women hold themselves back because they don't think their perspective matters. I'm here to tell you that you're not just robbing yourself when you do that: you're robbing all of us.

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

I feel it's important for the geeks to have a voice. 'Dope' is going to give a lot of people a new perspective.

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

If anything, I hope to see more players feel comfortable speaking out and sharing their perspectives openly in the future. The game needs more of that in my opinion.

The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

If outsider perspectives made 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Dark Knight' into fantastic franchises, imagine what would happen if you brought in the perspectives of women and people of color.

A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn't have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.

Leaders have to consider whether they have the right diverse perspectives at the table.

When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences.

I feel stronger and I feel like I've gained so much knowledge and new perspectives because I've met so many different people.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

Feminism is so pertinent - it affects all of us. As a woman you have an instinct to question sexual politics, we have a responsibility to care.

The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there.

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

I've seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn't think so.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.