Quotes About Empowerment

Ending extreme poverty is possible.

It's really important to be a strong role model. It's one of my main things because I feel I've been exposed in such an extreme way to a lot of sexism.

We don't have to let extremists define us.

I reinvented eyebrows.

Third grade, I plucked my eyebrows.

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.

We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.

I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.

I'm super excited to be collaborating with JCPenney to create my first-ever capsule collection for that plus-size woman who needs that confidence and wants to be fabulous every day.

I am somebody who feels that we're all fabulous, every human being, and I think when we do things that aren't so fabulous, we are disconnected from who we really are.

My ethos is that every woman deserves to look and feel truly fabulous regardless of her budget, size and shape.

You can wear whatever you want to make you feel pretty or fabulous.

In 20 years, I'm going to - I'm sure - envy the body that I have now. I look fabulous and it's important to celebrate.

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.

There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

I don't like acres of faceless girls walking.

What I would say is that if someone faces discrimination, they should never back down. They should be self-confident and educate others not to have such an attitude.

I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of them Democrats, running for Congress. When the community sees the other faces who look like them can run and win, I think it encourages them.

To see old faces, to give back to the kids and let them know I come from these same schools and streets, and they can make it out, too, that's my biggest message to them.

Coaches help every facet of a person's life.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.