Quotes About Empowerment

At the same time women are putting on the headscarf, they are also going to work, to education, increasingly vocal in the media - and this is the confusing thing about Muslim women in the West,. They are becoming Westernized at the same time as they are adopting their religious identity more strongly.

In the past, if you were too vocal, it was considered a negative. Now it's encouraged.

Consumers have to become an appropriately strong and vocal lobby capable of embarrassing the political establishment.

I'm going to be a more vocal leader.

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.

Back in the day, I was afraid to speak out. When I get music behind me, it feels like I can soothe the hurt and put it in vocals and say it to the room the way I feel it.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.

'Vogue' should be about giving a voice to all different cultures.

In 2017, there is more than one way to be beautiful and more than one way to be cool. And when you put an image on the cover of 'Vogue,' that means something that goes beyond fashion.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

Ever since I was little, I looked up to Destiny's Child so much; I looked up to the Spice Girls and En Vogue. A piece of me wanted to be in a girl group.

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

I've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obama. Those were benchmarks for the magazine, and certainly covers that I've been very, very proud of.

Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.

'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.

'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.

I would love to be in the pages of Vogue.

I'm a curvy, ethnic girl and I'm shooting with 'Vogue.' I want people to see and feel like, 'If Jordyn can do it, I can do it too.'

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.