Quotes About Empowerment

I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had the ability to reach me. It was like being dead, my escape allowing me to taste that tremendous power my mother possessed forever.

had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had the ability to reach me. It was like being dead, my escape allowing me to taste that tremendous power my mother possessed forever.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

Women in America work so hard and not all of them get their shot. And I feel like I worked hard, but I also got my opportunity, which puts in a different category of blessings.

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.