Quotes About Empowerment

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

I love giving back. There were a lot of people when I got started who really helped me. I do a lot of seminars and appearances. It's neat to be able to be in a position to do that. I've always loved coaching; it's how I got started.

I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

Education is a basic necessity.

I was stabbed in the neck when I was 15.

Hmm, I know I get more feminine when I'm mad, like I'll roll my neck, like I'm rolling my eyes.

That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.

You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.

When you've got curves - you need to show them, and I love showing mine!

We need to get rid of bullying. We need to get rid of abuse. We need to get rid of harassment. We need to get rid of the casting couch. Instead, we need to build the bench.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

All I've ever needed is myself.

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself without needing someone else to make me happy.

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.