Quotes About Empowerment

There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, 'if only'.

I think that 'Gilmore Girls' did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all.

We shouldn't expect women to have it all and manage it all and I certainly don't want to be portrayed in that way - I think it's a very negative message to send women.

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

I like being me and portraying myself in a certain way that makes me feel comfortable and confident.

I played the role of Mitro in 'Mitro Marjaani' which was directed by Mr. B. M. Shah and it was really amazing because for the first time in Indian theatre, was a woman portraying someone who is bold about her physical needs and is proud of her body.

People do ask me for advice for some reason. And I'll just kind of pose it back to them and let them answer on their own. I never like to give my advice 'cause I don't want them to come back and 'You were wrong! You ruined my life!' so it's more about 'Hey, this is what you just told me. What does that sound like to you?'

Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That's super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

For a long time, with a lot of women of the trans experience on television, people have only got to see one aspect of their life. With 'Pose,' it's broadened the scale.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

An online store cuts through the inhibitors that retail poses. It doesn't matter which city you live in or what income bracket you fall into, as long as you're interested in learning.

In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

One of the things that I'm trying to do is use the position that I'm in... to encourage the next generation of girls to think about the Internet as a career opportunity.

A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry.