Quotes About Empowerment

God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.

I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.

I've always wanted my offering to have broad appeal and work for a diverse range of women with different lifestyles.

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.

When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

Working out makes me feel strong and energized every time. It's my therapy for my mind and my body.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.