Quotes About Empowerment

I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.

The Internet can help you come out of your shell and gives you a chance to make friends who have the same passion as you, it's a real community.

The Shield was my idea.

We're going to have more women run for office. We can shift what's going on in Congress.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.

We want to end poverty and protect our environment. But we think the most efficient way of achieving that is to change the way a generation of young people is educated. That's how you'll shift the world.

It's important for African-Americans to express themselves, period. We're 400 years behind. We should be able to shine whenever and however we feel.

I have the right to shine my light! That's what all women have. Once you own that, you can almost always shine your light.

I'm using the success I've had to help other people shine.

My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.

My job is to change the system so all of India can shine.

Basically I feel like my role is to find great songs with the artists, for the artists, and have them shine.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.

I love to go out. I can go out shopping with myself. I love to do things alone. I spend a lot of time with myself.

Whenever I have short ,it's important for me to be inspired by people with short hair.

I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

There's no shortage of great young activists.

I used to hate my legs, but I learned to embrace them. They may be bigger than the average person's, but they're beautiful. I love them, and I wear short shorts all of the time.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.

At one point of time, I would like to shoulder a film on myself.

Activism doesn't always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting 'hell no, we won't go' at the top of your lungs.