Quotes About Empowerment

It's an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren't the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about.

California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

Lipgloss is my calling!

I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

I'm very excited to be teaming up with Merck for the 'Lets Go There' Campaign. It's a really important campaign to me because it's something that celebrates women.

I truly feel that being a woman, and particularly a mother, has had a large impact on my campaign.

Plus-size girls are now doing beauty campaigns and hair campaigns and so many different things that for so long we fought for and wanted.

The Time's Up movement extends to every college campus and, of course, athletics.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

For any kid who feels like a newcomer, who feels like they don't belong, my candidacy says, 'Not only do you belong, you can also aspire to run this country.'

As a woman candidate myself, I know how important it was to be encouraged to run, to think outside of the box.

I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.

It's hard to pick yourself up and go vote for a candidate if you don't have any sense that that candidate could have an impact on your life.

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

If it's of help to my candidates, I would like to go anywhere to give my candidates a boost.

I can't be an arm candy to the hero. I need to play characters that have layers, that people can relate to.

I could not be arm candy to a hero.

That is the culture at Deloitte: To make sure we are all maximizing the capabilities that we have.