Quotes About Empowerment

You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.

I'm trying to make the game easier for everyone else.

I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

Ultimately, we need to grow the women's game. That's the biggest issue; it always has been. Then you can talk about equal pay and everything else.

Leadership means not shying away from issues like safe abortion when the evidence shows us these services will save women's lives.

Women's MMA has evolved a lot.

You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.

It is important to have leadership groups, but at the end of the day I need to be taking the call because I'm responsible for the team and I should know exactly what I'm doing and I believe in that.

I want to be ambassador-like. I want to, you know, set examples, especially as a young black female. That, I think, is important, and I just want to be a bit of an example, you know.

Actors like Anushka Shetty, Nayanthara, Samantha Akkineni are great examples to look up to.

I feel a responsibility to encourage everyone to excel in science.

I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it.

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

Being part of the TV industry for so long, I have met and learned a lot from some exceptional women, be it actors, writers, or creatives.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

You know how few movies there are in the world about women and their work? I mean, it's like 'Silkwood' and 'Erin Brokovich.' There are exceptions, but they are so exceptional.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

I didn't listen to executives.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.