Quotes About Empowerment

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

The role of any exceptional facilitator or consultant is to work themselves out of a job.

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.

If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

I'm the one I need to work with.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

I need to not be scared of not having someone there to back me up. I just need to tackle things on my own. I feel like I have the power in me to make it work.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.