Quotes About Empowerment

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

We need to not pay attention to those losers who tried to push us down the stairs when we were in middle school.

Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have the most at stake in the future of our city.

By giving young Americans a stake in the outcome of their communities, we can renew our civic identity while providing people with skills and experiences that they can use throughout their lives.

I look forward to working closely with the CDK Board, management team, and employees to enable CDK to meet its full potential to generate value for all of its stakeholders.

Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.

For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go on and do other things while, at the same time, she made sure she kept her stamp on those things and grew her business.

AAP's Punjab Convener is not a rubber stamp.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

I was nurtured by Ralph Farquhar and then, later, by Sara Finney-Johnson and Vida Spears, two black women. So, I actually was nurtured by my culture, in a safe environment that allowed me to build my confidence. And Debbie Allen was one of my mentors, along with Stan Lathan.

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.

As a woman, my stance is that I'm a fighter, and in no way will I support any kind of injustice against women in our society.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.