Quotes About Empowerment

What I find so special about acting - especially being female in this world, and growing up with such intense standards of how you should be - is that you can break those rigid models.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Instead of going to a GLAAD event and standing on a soapbox, I am writing roles that I feel will change the narrative and open doors.

Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

It's great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.

Captain Britain is not about representing an empire, he's about standing up for everyone and fighting for the betterment of all.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

Women standing up for each other is critically important.

While most men don't have first-hand experience with gender-based discrimination, we can still be powerful allies for advancing women's rights. We need to do a better job of listening to women and standing up for what's right, even when it's not popular or comfortable.

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

As a woman standing up here, we have to fight for the rights of women.

I am committed to standing up for the LGBTQ community and being a strong voice.

Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.