Quotes About Empowerment

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

Kids deserve to be taken seriously. It's just as important to talk to them about women's equality, about fairness. We really have to focus on children early.

As Democrats, we believe in fairness and opportunity.

It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake.

When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.

I really have fallen in love with myself.

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted to put out into the world - and I have fallen in love with directing.

Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

I learned a lot about make-up during my years in The Saturdays. For all of us, make-up ended up being a real mask of confidence. We used to wear a lot of heavy make-up because we were on stage so much. I remember at one point having two or three sets of false eyelashes applied in one go.

I think it's false to believe that anything good is going to start from the top.

The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

I wanted to help women and their families.

In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

I have always believed that against smaller teams is when you can give others a chance to get some runs and gain some confidence.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.