Quotes About Empowerment

There are structural problems within the industry that are preventing us from displaying aspirational black roles.

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.

I have had issues in the past with the characters and the limitations of the characters and the structure of the narratives given to me as a woman of color.

We haven't evolved a hero story that's female. We're always trying to fit women's stories into this male structure, which is this rising action, this powerful conflict, and this falling action. And I think a female hero story is not that. It's something else.

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen to the rhythms within ourselves and take the normal words we used every day in our normal thoughts, which girls hadn't written about before.

We're a movement of many people who are uniting from the bottom up. We don't have structures, hierarchies, bosses, secretaries... No one gives us orders.

I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can be a radical force that should be dismantling stuff that locks people into structures.

Because there are almost no men in 'Monstress,' we're focused completely on women. It's removed from traditional structures.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.