Quotes About Empowerment

I too have daughters, and it saddens me that people think of daughters as a burden.

I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

There's something nice about being part of a trailblazing group. It's hard to look at myself that way because I look at Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoops and Rebecca Lobo and Dawn Staley in that way.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back you in this day and age.

I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.

The first gay people we elect must be strong. They must not be content to sit in the back of the bus. They must not be content to accept pablum. They must be above wheeling and dealing.

At the end of the day, your life is on the line when you're dealing with abusive men, and your life is more important than any man.

I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman.

Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.