Quotes About Empowerment

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership!

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside.

How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices.

If you don't tell your stories, who will?

Jannit liked Jenna, who reminded her of how she had been as a girl: a confident, taking-charge kind of person. That was how girls should be.

I mean, what is the point of being a damsel in distress if your knight goes off and just does his own thing?

'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.

Everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.