Quotes About Empowerment

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population.

Stop ignoring disabled people, we make up 22 per cent of the population. We're here and we're worth listening to.

We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.

Ultimately, my goal is to inspire little brown girls that look like me, that are sitting on the porch wearing cornrows.

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.

A country can develop only when you ensure these basic rights, let them voice their opinion and give them basic education, hygiene, medication, portable water and when you empower that is true development.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.

With Huda Beauty Angels, we're investing a portion of our personal family wealth to women-led brands that we believe in!

I was invited to do an all-female improv festival in Portland called All Jane, No Dick. The person running it asked me if I had a female improv team, and I just said yes and then figured out who I would want to bring with me. We had such a fun show together that we decided that we should keep doing it.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television.

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

For me, I've always wanted to portray roles that are empowering. Also, being empowering doesn't necessarily mean being strong all the time.

I wish I were as tough and strong as the women that I'm lucky enough to portray.

I really needed a show like 'Jane' when I was growing up, so being able to portray a positive Latina character means a lot to me because I feel like it's helping me to contribute to someone's dreams.

When I started off, nobody held my hand and told me what I should do and how I should portray myself as an actor.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

I really like the way 'Bond' girls are portrayed on screen.