Quotes About Empowerment

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.

Nobody can determine what your life means or how much your valued. You are your value.

Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.

I come from a very matriarchal family and it's important to me that women are protected and saved and educated and loved and valued.

I was raised in a household where kids' opinions were just as valued as adults and I think that was important for me.

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

I guess that there are many ways to look at being single, and none of them should include shame or feeling less valued.

I remember growing up and feeling all the time not pretty enough, too rude, too loud, taking too much space because precisely I wanted to maybe be bossy and loud and unapologetic and not really smooth all the time, and those were not really qualities that were valued for me.

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

At Unilever, we are committed to building an inclusive organisation where all individuals feel safe, valued, and supported - irrespective of gender, background, or any other difference.

I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people of all races, ethnicities, and orientations understand that no matter what differences we may think we have, everyone is a human, and everyone deserves to be respected and valued.

Black boys shouldn't have to feel that being good at sports is the only way to be cool - or to be valued by the world.

Doormats are rarely valued. Men actually like women who are not that obsessed by the man in their life.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

As long as we're united, and as long as we continue to organize, invest, and lead with our values, we'll be unstoppable.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

Where do you white women get the idea that having a child makes one weak and unable to do one's own work?

If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.

A central theme was recognizing what is in your control and what isn't—and acting on the one and ignoring the other. It's a philosophy that has resonated over the centuries. Reading

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.