Quotes About Empowerment

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

When my husband and I are getting into a taxi, I always stop the taxi and say where I want to go. My husband jumps in the car and says, 'This is where we are going.' That's the same when men and women approach wanting to become a candidate.

I never had a role model. I ended up wanting to be the best version of myself.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.

I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.