Quotes About Empowerment

The mystery is cool, but, at the same time, if I'm trying to empower people, I have to be an open book. You can see my flaws, the mistakes I've made. From that, make your own judgment and move on your own path.

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

I want to have the kind of career in which I'm accomplished and respected enough that I'm able to open doors for other people, especially those who look like me. That's what happiness and success could look like for me.

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

I just opened a free, public MMA gym in Paraiba, so why can't Curitiba or Sao Paulo have one? No money? Someone needs to do this.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

Not accepting where I came from, and who I am as a person, the voice, you know, the appearance, the everything. 'Drag Race' has opened my eyes to see there's so much more than where I came from and to, like, not hold that against myself.

I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.

'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.

I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of the feminist universe for women who might never have encountered contemporary feminism.

Jennifer Lopez, she opened so many doors for Latinas such as myself.

This natural-hair movement has opened up the door for us to do so many things, for us to have conversations that we weren't able to have. We need this in our communities.

Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.

Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.

'Dragons' Den' and 'The Apprentice' have opened people's eyes to what they can do.

'Housewives' opened the door for me for people to listen.