Quotes About Empowerment

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

I want to try and stay in the game and maybe have that responsibility: picking teams, telling players they're dropped. It's something that I might enjoy.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

People are really capable if you're able to give them the confidence to get something done and paint the picture of where we need to go.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.

I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't let The Man get to you.

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

I want to see women in pantsuits or two pieces, even something a little bit gaudy. It's so much more exciting than just another nice dress.

Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, is the American dream.

I didn't eat entire pies or pig out on junk... I gave life and no one can or should make a woman feel bad about her body when she just had a baby.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

Possibly one of the most exciting aspects of Pilates is that anyone can do it, and everyone can achieve amazing results.

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

If you think about 'The Pill' by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women - country listeners and beyond - that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Our own objective is to make Africa overcome its difficulties, to make Africa a continent of hope, to make Africa a continent of the future, to make Africa a pillar of the world in which we live - not seen as a problem but seen as an opportunity.

Women should get together and become the pillars of support for each other.

When we were kids, we couldn't wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up... It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.