Quotes About Empowerment

I am looking for strong characters rather than being just a pretty girl. Actresses can do so much more than looking good.

I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.

I've worked really hard to bring something more to 'pretty girl' roles over the years. I consider it a challenge.

I may not be the conventional girl, but that doesn't mean I'm not a pretty girl. Or that any girl isn't a pretty girl.

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.

There are times when you should listen to what people say about you, but also a lot of times you just don't need to listen so much. Don't worry so much and just go. Unless you're, like, in danger, and then don't. And then run, girl.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

The more we try to control our kids and create who they are and where they're going, the more that will fall apart. That's a dangerous thing. So you need to actually manage the fear and figure out who your kids are. Who do they want to be and how can you help shape that, but not control it.

I hope, then, that every one who sees 'The Danish Girl' might be galvanized themselves to lead more authentic lives. How much lovelier would the world be then?

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.

I wanted to show girls it's not bad to be dark, that different is beautiful.

I decided that in Wakanda, the royal family would have extremely dark complexions, like so black they're blue. My attitude was, because the royal family is dark, the darker you are, the more you're considered royal.

What I address is that I know that if I was some shades darker that I wouldn't be in the band. I think that was so important for me to address because it is true.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

I'm so proud to help put women's darts on the map.

I've beaten two of the best players in the world, and if that doesn't say that women can't play darts I don't know what can.