Quotes About Empowerment

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn't be so grateful. Know what you're worth. Walk away.

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.

Women should work with local and state leaders and be vocal about ensuring there's more diversity and more women involved.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

Love yourself, open your heart which means doing the work on yourself first. Then love will follow.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.