Quotes About Empowerment

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

The only problem that I had in my younger years and in college was not knowing if I had the confidence on the offensive side to just take over.

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that's our job as head coaches - to find those guys.

I can create offensive situations for myself and I can create situations for other people.

Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

I will not consider any offer for an item song. I will turn it down.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

When you're an actress - or just a woman - a lot of the exercise classes that are offered are so sort of male gaze-skewed. It's all working out for the beach and not for function at all.

Every time I've been offered a new job, I've automatically said, 'Oh, I don't think you want me for that job.' It's sort of a weird female - or, at least, it is in me - a weird female defense, when, in fact, what you want to do is scream, 'Hooray, I want to do this!'

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off 'Mailbox Money' than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us.

A lot of people who are in charge in Hollywood are women, so they have the power. Now, I've met a lot of these amazing women who are offering opportunities to other women, and they're awesome. But for the women who maybe haven't done that yet, it's like, why?

In the 23 years that I have been here in this industry, I have not once been in a position where somebody has propositioned me or I found myself in a place where they're offering me good work in return for some favors.

Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.

I've always looked up to Dr. Reita Faria, the first Asian to win the Miss World crown. Despite many offers from the glamour industry, she followed her passion and went on to become a gynaecologist.