Quotes About Empowerment

Although I'm the one who decides at the end of the day, I don't just want the players to walk behind me like soldiers. They should have their own opinions and come forward with ideas.

I met children who want to be social workers, lawyers, doctors, community activists and soldiers so they can help their people rise above still difficult economic circumstances.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

I don't think I ever really felt comfortable with photography as my sole medium. But it wasn't really until I became a mother - I really credit that to opening me up artistically, I think because it was such an empowering birth for me - it gave me the confidence to explore different modes of expression.

There are very few games, especially on the scale of 'Horizon,' that have a sole protagonist that is female.

There's no problem with a woman being president of the United States if you take her gender as a sole issue. Gender shouldn't matter.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Girls Who Code doesn't exist solely to discover the next great female technology icon, although that would be great! In addition to coding, the girls at our program learn to pitch ideas and products, present themselves professionally, and interact with colleagues at every level of a company.

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.

I'm very boring. But I'm a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don't care what other people think of them. I just think there's something so interesting about that kind of confidence.

I feel bonded to 'Take Me.' I'm proud of it. It's empowering, and at the end of the day, it's a pretty solid pop hit.

I love a woman who's solid in her shoes.

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.

It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

SOLO' is a fun, self-loving song. Through it, I wanted to show different sides of me.

Women artists, no matter how well recognized they are, are seldom given solo exhibitions or featured in significant group shows. They are never top-ranked in auction choices.

The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8.

The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!

I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.

I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Rather than teach women how to negotiate with sexists or shrink themselves down to 'likeable' size, perhaps the solution would be for employers to stop being sexist. In the meantime, women will continue to be blamed for their lower salaries.