Quotes About Empowerment

I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.

The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.

I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.

If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

News flash: A girl's girl doesn't try to shame another girl about her age.

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

I believe in myself, I believe in my players. My target is to try to get them to believe in themselves and believe in their colleagues. These are the things that we must do.

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.

I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I'm trying to show everybody that I'm a girl, and I'm five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It's your world, too!

What I'm trying to say to girls is don't let these guys be in your head.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.