Quotes About Empowerment

A perfectly fitted sheath dress that can take you from day to night is something that every woman should have in her closet. You can't go wrong with black, but a little bit of color is nice. I love a lot of color, personally. You can accessorize a sheath dress. Look at how Michelle Obama accessorizes clothes to make them her own.

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

My hope for my daughter is that she has the courage to at least try to do it all, to be kind to herself when it all doesn't come together perfectly, and to follow her dreams.

You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I feel like we do that. I just see so many women take the back seat and wait until the right opportunity, and when you do that, you miss out on the best things.

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.

I really like 'Hard-Knock Life' because I get to perform with all of the other girls, and it's such a strong number.

'Bloodlight and Bami' delivers. Ms. Jones shucks her own oysters - stressfully. She does her own make up and performs her own vexed yet amusing contract negotiations.

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.

I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

I used to love 'Ladies Night' by Lil' Kim so much that I performed it in school without really knowing what it was about. I just knew that she was getting at a guy and winning.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

We aspire to be a top performer in every area of our business, and that includes leading in the communities where our employees and their families live and work.

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

I want to be a successful trans woman burlesque performer.

By nature, a woman is independent though she can have bindings. But, she is a lone performer.

I grew into who I always wanted to be as a drag entertainer and performer.

Yes, I did have occasional scripts like a 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' or a 'Talwaar' that nurtured the performer in me, but I do wish there were more options.

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'