Quotes About Empowerment

But what happened the next morning, what will happen every morning for the rest of my life, that's up to me. I think people can choose to be victims or they can choose to be empowered and to carry on. That's what I want. To be empowered.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

My own words continued to echo in my head: I shall never marry . I felt as though I had somehow crossed a vast ocean, never to return.

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

work could become a place where people were uplifted.

Society, rather than valuing us as full human beings and empowering us, socializes us to focus on attracting, giving to, and pleasing others.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

I learned that "I can't" usually means "I won't," and that "I won't" usually means "I'm scared to.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

The one I wore to kill Jabba (my favorite moment in my own personal film history), which I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world & show business is a man's meal with women generously sprinkled through it like over-qualified spice.

no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.

I liked being Princess Leia. Or Princess Leia's being me. Over time I thought that we'd melded into one. I don't think you could think of Leia without my lurking in that thought somewhere.

I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.

What was it I wanted to tell you? Was it the new T-shirt-ready saying I came up with: "There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed"?

Now this is a delusion, but it's my delusion and I'm sticking with it. It's sort of like: I have problems but problems don't have me.

Anyway, I suppose in part I'm telling this story now because I want all of you - and I do mean all - to know that I wasn't always a somewhat-overweight woman without an upper lip to her name who can occasionally be found sleeping behind her face and always thinking in her mouth.

My want can only do so much in terms of changing what's actually occuring with other people, and I'd like to keep it that way. I don't want to feel that if I had wanted something more, or had said one other thing, or had worn a different dress, or had been more mysterious, or more open, then I would get something or someone I wouldn't get otherwise.

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

There's no room for demons when you're self possessed.

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.

that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.

I think I am Princess Leia and Princess Leia is me. It's like a Mobius Striptease.