Quotes About Empowerment

One of the cool things about 'Patti Cake$' is that it is about someone that is against stereotype.

I've always wanted to break the stereotype of being a model.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

I've shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

Strong is beautiful. I want to shatter that stereotype that strong isn't beautiful, because it absolutely is.

We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as 'bad' and not worth our attention or investment.

This industry is quick to stereotype. People had started talking about how I was primarily being part of women-centric movies. I didn't want to be labelled as part of a mahila morcha.

I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

We have to stop this stereotype that for girls it's about being in pink and horse riding. We need to teach kids to think outside the box, to dare girls to be different.

Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries - I'm cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.

What was most important and really new about the Age of Reason was the sublime confidence of the intellectuals and societal leaders in the power of man's reason

As Ludwig von Mises puts it in this seminal book, modern man "must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

Believing you cannot do it, does not make it so, believing you can do it must be your only option.

the power of higher ed

Let No Limitation be your Limitation.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.

When we act on our spontaneous judgment, we are almost always better off.