Quotes About Empowerment

Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.

When male allies make space for women, they're not diminishing their own power. Rather, they're enhancing everyone's.

The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.

I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'

The fact that designers like Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano and Dior could believe in Alek made me believe in myself, too.

I can't be diplomatic or compromise or take crap from people, so I'd probably make an exit way before I even made a proper entry into Bollywood.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I would love to be directed by more women.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I want to see some scripts written by women and projects being directed by women.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

I love directing.

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

I completely love directing.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.