Quotes About Empowerment

Lord knows one can use a distraction during divorce, and it's great to feel you are again successful on your own, with your own identity.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

I will buy sun dresses that I rip, burn and distress and then sew them back together.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.

It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.

We became quite famous in our district. People came especially to watch us. And I used to love it when we heard them saying, 'There go the girls who beat boys.'

And I think every woman can be a diva, and every woman can be just a woman. I think life is a runway, and you can do everything you want. If you want.

There's nothing wrong with being a Diva. If it's because I take care of myself and look good, then I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

It's not like I don't like the term 'Diva.' It's what you make of it.

I think I just need to be myself. I think that's what this 'Diva Search' competition is all about.

WWE wants women who are confident and can handle everything that being a WWE Diva comes with like lots of travel and being tough.

I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

If you are not diverse, you are saying, 'I don't want to be successful.'

Hollywood has to diversify.

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.

It's not about just diversity; it's about authenticity. Audiences are really excited to see more of themselves on the screen.

Together, we can put pressure on our employers to do better, to represent the rich diversity of the audience they serve, to stop painting women as sidekicks, as appendages or accessories to men.

It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.

I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.