Quotes About Empowerment

I feel that Miss India is a stepping stone for anything you want to do, not just Bollywood.

There is something liberating and defiant about going on stage and saying you are 36 and 13 stone.

Traditionally, our society has always seen women as homemakers and men as bread-earners. The demarcations are engraved in stone, perhaps.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.

I'd like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.

I have been feeling the love of South Africans since I got crowned Miss South Africa, even before going to Miss Universe. Because of that, while I was walking on the Miss Universe stage, I knew that I was there as one body, but as I stood on that stage, I stood as millions of South Africans.

India has always stood with Africa on the freedom struggle against colonial powers.

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she stood up to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey at a time where she was told where to work, where to sit, and she demanded that they pay attention to her.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.

Of course, there are times when I've stood next to models and felt like an elephant, but I'm adamant about the fact that I'm not a big girl, I just have the natural feminine figure.

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.

Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

Women haven't stood together enough because women have been pitted against one another.

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

I have stood on my own feet.

I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.