Quotes About Empowerment

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.

I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.

Moana doesn't have a love interest because this movie is about a journey - a physical one across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ocean, but also an emotional one of Moana finding herself. She doesn't need a man or love interest to find herself.

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!

Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

'Roots' focuses on a particular group of people who defy the odds and win, eventually, even if it isn't in their lifetimes. This is, for me, a very positive story and a very empowering one, if only we have that perspective on it.

I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.

We were a bonded group of girls, and it was us against the world and us against the odds.

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Don't be afraid to show off who you are.

I was compared to a bird that was too fat to lift itself off the ground.

When you have an open shot, it's an open shot and it's not about your role or the offense.

But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there's no reason why a woman couldn't be in the mix and shouldn't be in the mix.