Quotes About Empowerment

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.

I love breaking stereotypes.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

You definitely get different stereotypes and I've worked so hard, especially in the beginning, proving not that I was just more than a video girl but that you can do more than people expect you can and carry yourself a certain way and have some type of integrity or credibility.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.