Quotes About Empowerment

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Think well before selecting your leader, and when you have selected him, follow him. But in case you find his policy detrimental to your interests, kick him out.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.

To some extent, 'The Wall' is asking the question, 'Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it's not going to be handed to you on a plate.'

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.

You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.

There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

It is well known that men will apply for a job they are half qualified for, but women do not apply unless they meet every requirement. We want to see girls have equal levels of confidence and take the necessary leaps and risks.

Maybe at some point, I will come out with my #MeToo story. Very well known and important people have tried to take advantage of me or have misbehaved. They are still around. When I want to name them, I will name them. It will not be one name, there will be quite a few names.

I really want to share my story, but also make Paralympics more well known.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.

I always wanted to create awareness and spread the word that it is important to respect one's own body and work towards its well-being.

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

'SuperBetter' is fundamentally about a mind shift. It's about claiming your power to be in charge of how you spend your time and energy, and focusing it on the things that matter the most to you. Focusing on things that will bring real happiness, real well-being.