Quotes About Empowerment

Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want?

I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.

But never forget that love is always stronger than fear. Love saved me, and I know it will save you, too.

No buts, he said, because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did..

Giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.

Do you see these hands? Jo said, holding them up. These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.

You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live.

But never forget that love is always stronger than fear.

The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu once said that being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, and loving someone deeply gives you courage.

you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

Help me help you help yourself is kind of the motto I have.

We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.

Believe, really believe, you can move a mountain, and you can. Not many people believe that they can move mountains. So, as a result, not many people do.

We can climb mountains with self-love.

I can say that if anyone has worked to save the mountains, they are women.

It is my birthright, it is my political right, it is my democratic right, it is my constitutional right... that I must open my mouth... my voice... I can raise my voice.

I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.