Quotes About Empowerment

I've always sought to give opportunities to women, to people who come from a different background, to add diversity to the mix - in that I think it makes our work better.

I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

I knew in my soul that girls like me needed to be represented.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don't really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that's not fair.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

I used to be mad, at first, that I couldn't sound like Ice Cube. And I think that was probably one of the best things for me.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

Women come up to us all the time and give us the most amazing compliments, like, 'Salt-N-Pepa was the soundtrack of my life.' They remind us that we meant so much to them. Sometimes artists don't really grasp that. But when you talk to fans, you get in touch with your legacy.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

A lot of our fans, they always say Salt-N-Pepa and Spinderella was the soundtrack to their lives.

There are some sour people out there, but we should be getting together and fighting for something bigger rather than Asians against Asians.

Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

I create mood boards, and then we source fabrics and design the dresses. We are trend-led but also do our own thing! I want women to feel fabulous in our creations.