Quotes About Empowerment

I remember it when I used to go out, I used to dress as Superman, but then I used to dress as Superman dressed as Clark Kent. So, actually, I would be like a little seven-year-old boy going out in a business suit. But I would never expose the fact that I was Superman, but I knew, that should there be any trouble, I could take care of it.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing, you know? My wife is very smart. She's got a doctorate degree; she's got her own career going. She doesn't need me to take care of her.

I think more guys should wake up and realize we're equal. You don't have to take care of me.

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.

We have this attitude in America of, 'Someone else is going to fix the problem.' That's what the majority of Americans have. Or, 'I'm just going to go online and sign this petition, and that will take care of it.' That's doesn't do it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.

I do like playing smart women who can be sexy and are taken seriously.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

A gun saved my life. That's why I won't let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.

No one's taken anything from me.

We've shown people that you don't have to be taken for granted. You don't have to settle for less!

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.

All it takes is one coach that believes in you.