Quotes About Empowerment

I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves.

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves.

Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

The last thing I would ever do though is actively work against another woman.

I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.

Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.