Quotes About Empowerment

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

I'd love to see a woman host the Oscars.

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Leadership is service to others.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.

I don't think anybody in America ought to be scared.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them it's healthy.