Quotes About Empowerment

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

I don't pressure anyone to do anything for me.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

Do what you want to do, and don't feel pressure to do what other people want.

I don't really feel any pressure. I can control only what I can control.

You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

People are always going to tell you to lose weight, and they tell you how they feel about it. There are pressures always to be a certain weight, but you have to be who you are. And if you want to change, you have got to do it for you and not for what people want you to be.

Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.

I think more girls feel encouraged when women from their community do well. Especially in a place like Haryana, where people presume that women are looked down upon.

We didn't ask for our wombs and ovaries, and this presumption that we have to use them because otherwise it's a waste, otherwise we're not emotional or not sensitive in some way, it's a really cruel diagnosis of a woman's character.

If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.

Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything. It's not about how you look - it's about what you say. It's about what message you're getting across.

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

Let's make it clear: women are sexier than men. They are a prettier gender than their male counterparts. And then, if a woman is comfortable showing her mid-riff on-screen, what is the other's problem? Why does she face body shaming? Does a man face the same while going shirtless?

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.

They used to say a woman would never main-event a pay-per-view. I'm pretty sure I heard that from my dad.

It's important to me that I'm more than a pretty face or another person starring in movies. That's great, but there's so much more than can and should be done.