Quotes About Empowerment

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

These chains are not going to stop me.

I am not in chains. My mind is my own.

We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

Every woman on the NXT roster learns from me every day, and they will continue to learn from me when I become their champion.

I love being the NXT Women's Champion.

Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.

Give kids the chance to be champions.

One thing I wanted when I left was to make this Divas Championship mean something a little bit more than what it did.

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.

Even though I didn't have a lot of material things, I had the love and education and all together a lot of kids don't have the same chances, so the goal is to give some chances to the kids that don't have it.

I love to give people chances that otherwise wouldn't have them.

A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.

Children can change the world.

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.

People say you can't change the world. But you can change people.

I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

Sport can change the world.