Quotes About Empowerment

I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I feel like I'm the voice for my generation, especially for women.

I can't list all the influences that Lady Gaga has given me and my generation.

I've always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn't think we had to fight for it. I thought it was all done. I took so much for granted.

Being on 'The Voice,' I have a voice. I'm speaking for my generation, and that's huge.

My generation is so motivated to tell their own stories because we have so many that need to be heard.

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.

My generation is so intelligent.

My journey has really been trying to normalize girls loving girls.

Whether you say I'm too black, I'm not black enough, this is me. I hope people realize that my journey to love doesn't have to be any different just because my skin is.

My motto is never let anyone dull your shine.

For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.

I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I'm in my own little lane, doing just me. I don't have to fit in.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I'm a free bird and I follow my own rules.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I do whatever appeals to me. I have always made my own choices.

I'm creating my own future.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.