Quotes About Empowerment

Our move to offer free options trading is rooted in the belief that sophisticated investment tools don't need to be complex or reserved for the wealthy.

Minority and low-income parents are just as capable as wealthy parents of identifying schools that are providing a first class education. Stop infantilizing us and start empowering our families with choice, with freedom, and personal responsibility.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.

Throughout our history, our fight for survival and freedom has been empowered by a secret weapon: Our unity.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

When you know that the offense isn't just predicated on one guy and that every movement you make gives you a chance to be a part of the action, to make you a weapon, it's empowering.

I believe getting rid of the divide between men and women will truly establish what it is to be equal. Fashion is increasingly acting as a weapon of change, inspiring ideas that blur that division, albeit in a subliminal manner.

The injuries and subsequent incidents inspired me to do something. I converted my weakness into my strength and made it my weapon.

I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

Let's face it - selling weapons systems to the Army isn't women's work.

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

The runway isn't just about showing fashion, it's about gaining confidence. And I really believe that once you've got your confidence, you can wear anything, you can do anything.

Life's too short to wear boring clothes and apply boring lipsticks, and BTW, I loved my blue lipstick.