Quotes About Empowerment

I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

I want to invest in hard-working families.

I sure do want to make sure women get equal pay for the work we do.

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work.

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We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.

But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh my god, I sound like my therapist! Call her, she can vouch that I'm doing great.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!