Quotes About Empowerment

I believe that it's easier for the woman to submit. That's biblical... God has equipped men to take on much more responsibility.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

I don't subscribe to the idea of a first and second heroine. I go by if a role is strong.

With the 12-step program, if you don't subscribe to that way of life completely, it can be seen as failing, and I think a lot of people can take the parts of that kind of program that they need and not other parts.

I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.

I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'

I always feel like you should walk into a room or walk down the street, like you belong. That's the philosophy that I always try to subscribe to.

I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically, but then, you also give them a longer runway to be able to apply the knowledge that they have learned to subsequent work.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.

There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

I am a woman of substance and there's a lot inside me. I have had my own struggles and my journey.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

The industry confines us in boxes, but we have to prove that we are women of substance.

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.

No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at - they have more to them than that.