Quotes About Empowerment

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

G-strings are uncomfortable. Girls want real knickers now.

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

I'm my own person, and people can say whatever they want. I'm still going to be the person that I am.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference.

I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.