Quotes About Empowerment

The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows who's behind the screen so you can't tell I'm a 12-year-old.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.

When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that.

Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.

I love stories about women.

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.

'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film for Asians and that film for African Americans - it's so binary. I don't think it's like that at all. There should be and will be many films and many stories. Hopefully this just opens the floodgates.

There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.

I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!

There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

I'm ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, 'Deaf people can dance.'

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

I know that my life story is an inspirational one and one that can, hopefully, help others achieve goals in their own lives.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

Meeting kids who feel inspired by my story, it means so much to me.

I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.