Quotes About Empowerment

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

My mum wouldn't let me go outside. Coming back from school, the gang men sometimes would say things, but I would walk by, never answer, and my mum would go tell them leave me alone.

I have a dance academy in Mumbai that my husband takes care of.

When I first joined with Murphy, I had to make a character change. I wasn't confident in myself about that at all, but I remember my mom telling me that once something clicks with me... I had to... come in and kick the door down and let everyone know who I am.

'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.

It's impossible not to be aware of the Ryan Murphy empire, but he is so kind and funny, and you feel in such safe hands every day.

I was brought up with a very strong value that you should always protect the small and the few against those who want to misuse their muscle and weight in order to get what they weren't supposed to.

See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I'm built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I'm not just muscles and headlocks. I need to prove to people that there is an elegant woman in here.

Ladies, don't be afraid of getting big, bulky arm muscles from resistance exercise.

Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.

You think of She-Hulk and muscles and stuff, but the person who's behind it is just such a cool character.

I don't have big muscles.

I pride myself on being an athlete and I have muscles, but at the same time I am a woman and my muscles make me empowered as a woman.

Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor.

To be honest with you, my mom never really wore makeup when I was growing up. She wasn't really my makeup muse. It was my grandma. The biggest thing that she taught me is that it doesn't matter how your makeup comes out, it's really just how you wear it. If you carry it like you killed your makeup, then that's all that matters.

The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father's belief of self-actualization.

I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black bodies in it on a museum wall... It strengthened me on a cellular level.

Music has no limits, borders or ages.

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

Music will save the world.

I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to a place where I've broken down a lot of those doors.

I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in every single career out there.