Quotes About Empowerment

It's not very exciting to go to work to just have your character's identity being defined by her relationship with her male counterparts.

I turned down a lot of work. I didn't want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.

Growing up and being bullied, it's not a sad story for me. It's defined me and what made me so strong.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

What I like to think I've done is try to teach all women and my three female daughters, to teach them to rise above stuff, to find things that move you, to bring humor and laughter to everything that you do, and to realize that no other person defines you. Find what's great about yourself, and band together as women.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

Defining moments are the moments that either define you, or you define the moment.

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.

The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly living up to its creed.

And if you can change Addis, definitely you can change Ethiopia.

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

Hopefully, if we stop using the term plus-size we can just create a broader definition for what a model is.

If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.

Defy the limitations people put on you.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

No one can live under degradation.

I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

I have learned to delegate.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.