Quotes About Empowerment

I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing.

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'

It's up to me to create the life I want.

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!