Quotes About Empowerment

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.

And I know it's an old cliche, but winning and being in a winning position breeds confidence - cliche or not, it's still true.

This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don't be afraid to be yourself.

I think that I've always represented self-empowerment, you being your best cheerleader, you always affirming yourself. I've always been about empowering people. It sounds very cliche in a way, but it's not.

Breaking cliches for women has never been easy.

Well, I like empowering my clients.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

When I was growing up, I just saw my mother as a successful businesswoman and awesome mother, so I never really thought, 'I can't do it.' I saw how she worked hard, served clients really well, was a great mum to us.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

We need to encourage girls, while they are at school, to know that no career path is closed to them, and to take pride in having ambitions.

Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors.

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.

I do believe we can do more to bring the U.N. closer to the world's citizen and make a real difference in their lives.

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

You base your life, and you live your life on your terms. Your opinion matters, and the opinions of the people closest to you matter. Nobody else's opinion matters.

The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!