Quotes About Empowerment

The International Girl Crew isn't supposed to be super exclusive - that's a really important part of our brand and message. It's not just our crew - it's a lifestyle. It's for everybody to know how empowering it is to be surrounded by friends who motivate and support you and who you feel like you can exchange ideas with and do projects with.

It's really important to be surrounded by people who are going to lift you up.

I've never felt like I can't do anything because I'm a woman. Never, ever. I was privileged enough to be surrounded by women that were at the top of their game and just freakin' doing it.

I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life.

I've been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest inspiration.

I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.

We're proud of how we've stuck together, stood our ground, surrounded ourselves with strong women and are now using our voices more than ever.

As soon as you start listening to the gossip surrounding you, you just get dragged down by it.

I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.

Supporting other girls and other women in your surroundings - it could be anything, not necessarily music - it is you giving back to the world.

I'm comfortable in my own skin and surroundings. I don't think I get overshadowed by my husband or his personality.

There are so many intelligent former black players, guys like Luther Blissett and Cyrille Regis, who never got a chance to become a top manager or a top coach because of the perception that surrounds people who look like them. They are black - which, for many, means they are good athletes but incapable of being anything above and beyond that.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

I hope to be a source of change and inspiration to my peers, empowering them to reach out and take action that will ensure the healthy survival of all of our species and ecosystems.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.

Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival.

For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.

It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.