Quotes About Empowerment

I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

The world is ours if we want it, we can take it, if you just take my hand

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.