Quotes About Empowerment

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

As a perception on how I have perceived myself, I have always felt beautiful.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

What shaped my perception about my body and myself was finding better clothes - that's what changed my world.

I hated my pimpled skin, my love handles, my overall size... It is only now that I look back and understand how incredibly strong my body was and how accepting its size as my strength would have changed my entire perception.

As a mother, I think it's so important to change the perception of beauty.

There's this perception that you can't be more than one thing. That if you're dubbed 'sexy' you can no longer be anything else. That you become intellectually uncomplicated, incapable of accomplishing anything other than appearing to be an object for men. And it's rubbish.

My friends have said, 'Wait, you're pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you're interested in science?' I have to just hold my head and go, 'Do you hear yourself?' By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

Women's sport is embedded in the mainstream consciousness now, and that is a hugely positive thing. That's not to say that our sport can't get even more popular - because I think it can - but perceptions have definitely changed for the better.

Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life mainly in the U.K. It's so beautiful, perceptive and insightful, giving us so much to think about and changing the way we see the world and the experiences of others.

I want to make this world perfect.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

Imperfection is the new perfection.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

It's more about going to a place inside of me as a woman who knows that I'm never going to have perfection. And that I deserve to be healthy and feel healthy.

That's really truly what my message is - finding self love within yourself and not comparing yourself to others - because there's no such thing as perfection, because perfection doesn't exist.

It took me so long to find the perfection foundation shade.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

I always love wearing Vivienne Westwood. Her dresses just seem to fit me perfectly, and she makes dresses for girls with curves - I love that.