Quotes About Empowerment

I found a really cheap Visograph printer on Craigslist and drove down to Pennsylvania to pick it up and that really gave me a lot of freedom.

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

Empowering communities by leveraging federal and local investments helps improve the federal-local relationship and advance shared priorities.

My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

Education needs to be our state's top priority.

Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

When you work in film sets, when you're working on projects that are male dominated, you are always treated as the last priority.

It's always about agency - that's the goal, always, to give agency to people. I think that's always got to be the priority.

I do see the ministry of Human Resources Development through the prism of gender. I see it through the prism of capabilities.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

'Prison Break' really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a lack thereof can serve as either a prison or a fortress commanded by the mind: you can become a slave to it, or it can set you free.

A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison Association and kind of getting to see firsthand what they do for incarcerated women.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.

A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.

Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.