Quotes About Empowerment

Jeans are super American and will never go out of style. When they first came on the fashion scene they were a statement of women empowerment. When women began wearing pants, they wore jeans! They weren't just denim, they were part of a feminist movement.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.

I'm a walking political statement.

Coming up with a simple statement like 'I choose health' is a good beginning.

Every time we get in drag and bat an eyelash, it is a political statement.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.

We as footballers, like with Sancho, have a lot of power to reach other people, to be role models and to say something. What we say to people outside gives us a big chance to make a statement.

I think the thing that I learned is I will never let a staff have too much control again, which is a strong statement.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.

I think I have the same hair as him. If a movie comes about, I have to be Static Shock.

I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.

I look forward to the day that I can go with my daughters to the polling station for them to cast their first vote.

When a very tough, old school leader announced that I was his pick to be Chief of Station in a small but important frontier post, a few competitors complained to me directly 'why would they send you?' I owe that leader much for believing in me at a time when few women were given these opportunities.

I think that my career and perhaps me being on the International Space Station can really show women and girls and everybody that hey, we're not just sitting at the table, we're leading the table.

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Someone once shared a statistic with me about how long it takes women to make their second films. On average, it's three years for men and eight years for women.

As a woman, it is so tough to grow your business. People are ready to hear all your creative inputs, but the minute you start talking about numbers and statistics, they look over your shoulder to see whether you have a man backing you up or not.

One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'