Quotes About Empowerment

It's exhausting being a woman.

I don't watch what I eat, because the concept seems exhausting to me.

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

My only expectation, which I tell my kids very, very often, is that they follow their heart.

If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.

If you don't like something, change it. My parents expected me to stay in my office job as an administrator at the Co-op because I'm disabled, but I said no and changed my whole life.

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.

If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.

I think women have the opportunity to change the landscape and change the direction of America.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.

'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.

The industry just hasn't been thinking outside the box when it comes to Latina women.

Just because you are Latino does not mean you can't be global.

I do want to be involved in quality projects that say something positive about the Latino community.

Latinos don't go out and support their own films, but at the same time, it's not their responsibility.

Latinos can do anything.

It's amazing the support we've been able to get from Latinos and just in general from everyone.

Our society can only become one of two things, it can be become what we let it become or it can become what we make it, and I choose the latter.