Quotes About Empowerment

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

You know, guys, it is possible for two women to work together and get along.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.

The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.

I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.