Quotes About Empowerment

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.

Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.

We know that companies which have more women in leadership positions have a better performance.

I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

If I was a guy, based on how I performed in pilot training, I would have been able to have selected a fighter. I mean, I have always said unemotionally, if we want the best fighting force, why would we have 50 percent of our population not competing for these positions?

I really never saw an obstacle for me in taking leadership positions because, in a very ridiculous way, I thought, 'If Mary Robinson can do it then why can't I?'

We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find positions of influence. So we need critical mass, and we're still working toward that. I won't be satisfied until we're at the 50-50 place, where we ought to be.

I've a kinship with women. That's why I've always put women in strong positions in music.

I've been very lucky to work in a newsroom where there are lots of strong, funny, clever women in senior positions.

We need more women in positions of power so that women's issues are thought of more, because a room full of men in government and in power don't think the type of things needed to make a change.

You're always trying to find ways of getting guys in positions in which they will be comfortable.

One thing that became abundantly clear right away was that the more women you have in positions of power, the bigger the opportunity you have to serve women. If a woman is not in the room to speak about what a woman needs, then those decisions aren't being made.

I realized there wasn't a structure in place at the time to have female mentors in positions above you. If there were women above me, they had gone through such a difficult time to get there that they had internalized the idea that women share the same space in the writers' room.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Anything that we can do to help men be more confident, I think that's going to be a net positive.

I choose to focus on the positive.

I think that my attitude about myself is something that I've been trying to work on - trying to be more positive and just believing in myself more.

We all have fear in life. I don't let that fear control me. I control it, manage it, use it as a positive.

As an athlete, our platform is so high. A lot of people look up to us. So if they see us doing something positive, it can change the world.