Quotes About Empowerment

If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.

When you're a little girl, you never think anyone's gonna tell you 'no.'

I hope for little girls and boys that there is a future where they can make choices about how they raise their family and what sort of career they have, which is based on what they want and what makes them happy.

That's the point I'm trying to get across in 'Little': Kids can do anything, and that's how adults need to see things, too.

When you take a little time to put makeup on, it changes your confidence level and you radiate that.

I certainly do like to live life on my own terms. It would be great to live in a world where women get the respect and support that my family has given me to make my own choices.

Isn't living life about having freedom to choose what an individual wants, instead of being told what to do?

Between what we do with Alexa and what we do in the living room, I think we have an opportunity to change what's possible for people and what's accessible to people.

There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.

I have loads of cellulite!

For my mum, it was really important to teach me and my brothers, so it came more from her to be honest than anything else. She made sure that we just read loads of books about slavery, about black culture, about black history but I don't think everyone would have had that obviously.

All politics are local, and so in church.

I've always believed in local government.

Bayley is a locker room leader, and an amazing person inside and out. I've watched and learned from her, the way she handles situations and adapts so easily and quickly. She has the ability to make things look so easy.

Jovenel Moise is a guy who will continue to do all that is good in all domain, but agriculture is our locomotive.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

It feels nice after a long career as an actor to find your own voice and support that.

We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

I wish I didn't think about what my body looks like. It can be done - it's just a long process.

Hopefully I can help kids, and they can end up being stronger in the long run, too.