Quotes About Empowerment

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

I stood on people's shoulders, so I want to be there for somebody else to take it even further.

I've always been alone, done things by myself and stood stronger than the others.

I've had doors slammed in my face, I've been shouted at in my face in meetings when I've stood up for myself.

We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've always stood up to it and said, 'Fine, bring it on and we'll show you how we rock.'

In CrossFit I really I stood out because I made all my outfits.

There have been times I have stood in for women.

I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.

Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

Black history won't stop no bullets.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.

The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.

I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through.