Quotes About Empowerment

I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can't do anything to change it - and I wouldn't have acquired the voice that I have.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

Education is the key to abolishing caste system.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

I remember being a young black kid in high school, I didn't think the establishment or the political system was for me. I didn't think the system was for me, and I know a lot of kids feel that way.

My advocacy is regarding women empowerment and for this, For this, I have been focusing on my community because I have seen how my mother has dealt with a patriarchal system.

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

My motivation is to help ensure all young people of color live up to their potential and succeed in the face of the systemic inequality that remains as real today as ever.

There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.

From a legal perspective, the barriers to women's economic success is systemic.

The actual act of sitting out doesn't directly fight systemic racism. But it does highlight the reality that without black athletes, the NBA wouldn't be what it is today. The league has a responsibility to our communities in helping to empower us - just as we have made the NBA brand strong.

Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves—to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.

There are people who will try to make you choose between who you are and who they want you to be. You have to watch out for those people.

Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time.

With the right people, you can carry your boat and it doesn't even feel that heavy.