Quotes About Empowerment

In New Mexico, we're very lucky that we have laws in place that really help ensure that Native Americans' right to vote is unencumbered.

It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.

The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.

The right way to win is to recognize that winning isn't the end game, but rather the beginning of new opportunities - maybe even opportunities to help other people win.

When you go out and meet new people, you can come up with new ideas and be enlightened and help the country become a better place.

My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

I want to show everyone that you can do what you want, don't be afraid to try new things.

The magic of GoPro is that we are enabling the world to communicate in this new way, to express themselves in a new way, and it's snowballing.

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

I can't wait for the day when it is no longer newsworthy that a woman is appointed editor of a newspaper.

The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.'

I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova.

I tell people to use me as example of what they can do if they don't give up. I like people to see me as a 'girl next door' who conquered and went after what she wanted.

I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.

We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.

Encouraging the next generation is really where my heart is.