Quotes About Empowerment

I've always wanted to be a woman of substance, giving the society as much as I can.

Patty Loveless is the big influence for me. Loving her music, loving how she wrote songs, loving the kind of songs she cut. A strong woman with true substance to her lyrics, but songs that just felt so good.

At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.

Whether I'm in a sari or a mini skirt hardly matters as long as the role I do in a film is substantial and makes a difference.

I have always been known for my glamour but I wanted to do something strong and substantial on TV, which is a woman dominated medium.

I think it's possible to bag substantial roles in meaningful cinema despite being a mother. My role in Yagavarayinum ' is the best example.

We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.

I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That's always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive, enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.

I enjoy helping young children succeed.

Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.

At Epic, we succeed when developers succeed.

I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.