Quotes About Empowerment

Women - and those who love them - need to know the truth about abortion facilities.

When we address the disparities facing black people, we get a lot closer to a true democracy where all lives matter.

In any leadership, whenever you're facing a tough challenge, find ways to bring people together and get them to serve together.

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

Knowing that I might be encouraging others by facing my own difficulties is what helps me get out of bed in the morning.

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to not be a factor in my life at all.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

You have to know when to give up control, and if you go to a good restaurant, you have to give it up - it's a trust factor.

So I think the biggest thing that I've learnt in my career is not allowing external factors to determine my self-worth - external factors being what coaches think of me, the amount of playing time I get - not allowing those things that actually are out of my control affect how I feel about myself.

Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

Now, a leader must cause things to happen and lives to be affected. Something should move and change. He must see that those under him do not fail. But it should be done in the Lord's way.

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

If my fans only want me to do a certain kind of films, then 'Naanaku Prematho' would have failed miserably. They've entrusted me with the freedom to select good and different scripts.

I have been shocked at some senior actors who made lewd comments on my body. They think it is normal, and in fact, I thought it was normal. But, much later, I failed to see how that is a normal thing.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I hate people feeling like failures, I hate it because no one's a failure.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Do things fairly, especially with your children. Girls deserve equal opportunities, especially in getting educated as well as equal sharing in business.