Quotes About Empowerment

I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

I love women who don't apologize.

I am done apologizing for being ambitious and I stand for all those women who don't want to apologize just because they are working.

I will never apologize for being me.

My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

Women I've known have always been quite strong and confident women. Sure, I've got some friends who aren't so overtly confident, or at least don't appear that way. But when you get to know them, they are very much so.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

I have no hang-ups about appearing in the nude.

You can't be around people who appease you all the time.

I feel really proud of the work I did at Apple Music, and I don't take anything away from it that's negative at all.

Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

I have no apprehension over cutting my hair.

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things.

I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.

I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.

I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren't 'allowed' to. So I'm going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories.

I'm trying to be a voice for the North African Arab community. We've got to continue to fight for our place in the industry.

As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

Fashion is really our armor in the world.

A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.