Quotes About Empowerment

Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

I feel sexy when I'm doing what I love - like when I'm singing or performing or something - that's when I feel the most in control and in my element.

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

We need more women of colour in fashion, period.

We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices. We leave our families behind to chase our dreams, too.

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Black people shouldn't have permanent friends or enemies: they should have permanent interest.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

We need organisations like Vote Leave to operate permanently to give a voice to those who otherwise won't be heard.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.