Quotes About Empowerment

My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.

I was teased about Indian food and the colour of my skin and why my knees and elbows were dark.

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

What you want is to have women at the same pace as men doing tech immersion. It's not that every woman has to do it, but to close the gap, you need to have them do it at the same pace as men.

Representation is so important because it's hard for kids to want to be what they can't see. Little girls and boys need to know that it's natural for girls to love science and tech.

Henry Louis Gates

Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club.

The best thing women in tech can do is to invest in other women.

To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.

Tech can be something that can be great for us. We don't need to fear it.

You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.

Oftentimes in tech, people think, 'I'm the only one that has this.' I call them the Atlas People. They're like, 'The weight of the world is on the shoulders. I'm the only person who can solve this problem.' But you can't do that.

While there should be collective efforts to increase tech inclusion overall, the industry must work to specifically attract and retain women of color.

We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community.

Girls are being left out of the conversation when it comes to technology, led to think of tech as insular and antisocial without ever being given a chance to correct those perceptions.

Recognizing that female participation in technology is lower than it should be, we are committed to bolstering female tech talent, eliminating obstacles and challenges they face, and fostering diversity.

It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.

Being a female head of a successful tech company means that I'm in a pretty niche category.

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

We've seen historically how marginalized communities or historically marginalized communities particularly suffer from tech companies unchecked data collection and use.