Quotes About Empowerment

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

Carrie Bradshaw made it okay for New York women to take fashion chances and show that they are fabulous and strong.

The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.

It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

It's important for Oklahoma to have people in a position to make a difference. The only way we can do that is to have people in key places.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

But a sense of - in old-fashioned speak - 'I am OK, I do deserve to be here, I can do what I want to do, I can be myself, I can express myself' is really important as you go into the working world.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

I think everything that played a part in my life growing up is in my music. Being homeless, living in shelters, dealing with over-aged, older men that hit on me... all that is in the music.