Quotes About Empowerment

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning.

You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

When I found out that I was going to be CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

I have my mother's hips...I have an apple bottom.

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Education is the mother of leadership.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

We don't need more 'What if the mother is going to die' debated, we need 'I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.