Quotes About Empowerment

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

Producing isn't my favourite bit about what I do, but the fact that I know how to do it gives me this sense of power in situations that are super male-dominated.

I definitely want to get into producing. I want to be on the side of the table where I can give people jobs.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

I won't put a product out that I don't 100 percent believe in. All of my products are made from the best ingredients and are made to make a woman feel like herself, only prettier and more confident.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

Acting is more creative and liberating than production.

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

With 'Suffragette,' I was emboldened that there were so many women around me. We had a female writer, producers, production and costume designers.

I started a production company - all female led, actually - called Freckle Films.

If women choose guerilla style filmmaking or new media productions, etc., all power to them. But if they're there because 'Big Hollywood' won't let them in, then we're moving further and further away from equality.

What's the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive.