Quotes About Empowerment

They come dressed in the outfits, and not only are the women in the metal bikini but some men are wearing it, too, and it looks fantastic.

Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt—the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt—the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women's looks in his world, on his planet and the next. In wax, I would forever be outfitted by outlaw Jabba. In wax and out, I would forever be stone-faced.

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

Take your broken heart and make it to the heart.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

You needn't ever make mountains out of molehills again. You have misjudged yourself. You are not who you think you are.

I knew my name. So I let him know I knew it. 'Yeah,' I said in a voice very like mine. Mine but hollow, mine but it didn't matter because my stomach had swung into action.

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

who do I think I would've been if I hadn't been Princess Leia? Am I Princess Leia, or is she me? Split the difference and you'd be closer to the truth.

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

If what doesn't kill you makes you—well, what doesn't kill you makes you not dead but if what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then I should be able to lift Cedars-Sinai Hospital and glow in the dark. So I say to myself at this point—BRING IT ON!!!

It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straight for it? Why get them to like my legs? It doesn't seem like that's me. I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.

And her sponsor said, "God never gives us any more than we can handle, so if He gives you a lot to handle, take it as a compliment. It's because He believes that you can handle a lot." It was such a powerful thought, I wanted to brand it into my brain.

There is no room for demons when you are self-possessed.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

I'm not a damsel and there is no distress

I promise you. You will survive this. Feel my hand. It is yours now, my queen. I promise you. I am yours.

no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?

I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me.

I think that sometimes, when you're with the wrong person, you try to become what that person wants. You lose yourself and who you are, just a little bit, but that doesn't mean you can't get it back.

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself,

What feels best is how I no longer hurt.