Quotes About Empowerment

I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had value. Had I known, I probably would've spoken up more. I probably would've found my activism sooner and become a writer sooner.

I feel like a lot of women have been questioning their role in their workplaces and society, opportunities that they may have missed or haven't spoken up for.

There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.

I have spoken on many occasions about what I felt about a lack of black managers at the highest level. Total inclusion is good for our game and that is what I think everyone wants to see.

I wanted to use my voice to address colourism because I am so aware of how awful it is and it is just something that needs to be spoken about.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

I am one hundred percent ready to be a spokesperson for the deaf community.

J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let's go ahead and let her have it all.

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.