Quotes About Empowerment

Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These were the women that really brought ballroom to life.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

I want to develop women-oriented films because, in most of the films, 70 per cent of the focus is on heroes and the rest on the heroine.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Women can better perceive injustice.

How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror.

I don't care what a guy can't do. Tell me what a guy can do and let's make the best of that. If we can do that, all the perceived things he can't do seem to go away.

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

I'll admit that I am not always 100 percent confident because I'm a woman. I'm a woman and I'm human.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

I believe in my kids 100 percent. When you have confidence in them, they have confidence in themselves.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.

You still hear this perception that boys are good at math and girls are not, and it's not cool and it's not interesting. And I think we have to shift the culture. It's so deeply entrenched in who we are.