Quotes About Empowerment

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

But trust me, it's best to face something head on, smash it, and move on with your life. Lingering and wondering, waiting and worrying... that kills you.

Is there room for a woman who could take a man and change his no to a yes?

Please don't call me darling. Or honey, or sugar." The man lifted his hands. "Sor-ree," he said. "Sweetheart." Haley

Don't be normal, Tiger. Promise me?

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power--not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.

Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if theyre not doing it right youve got to speak up and show them and if you still dont get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.

It behooves all of us to have everyone experience their deepest, most beautiful, most profound and powerful self, because those people are more apt to give their gift to everyone else rather than shudder in fear.

You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power--not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.

To be at the center of the story is a powerful thing, it gives a palpable agency to your life.

I don't understand why it's such a terrible thing for a woman to want wealth, anyway; we have as much right to it as a man. It isn't our fault if there's no way to get it except through a male; if jobs are closed to us, or if men themselves make it too dangerous for a woman to work in the open alone. We can resign ourselves to being poor, or being prey; there is no in between!