Quotes About Empowerment

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

I don't like to play the victim.

I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I don't want to be a victim.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all times that you're a potential victim. What's more terrifying is that it's not necessarily preventative.

Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.

Everybody is not a victim.

I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.

You're not a victim of your divorce. What you decide to do with yourself and your personal life after your marriage ends is your decision, and completely under your control.

I'm not a victim.

I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

I've been many people. I've been the skinny girl. I've been the fat girl. Because I've become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to 'Well, I don't have to look good anymore.'

It's rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.