Quotes About Empowerment

Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.

My censor board is my own heart and mind. Our audience can say that the women in my films are bold or sensual, but never, ever vulgar.

If someone says something vulgar to you and you retweet it, now you're giving them a voice, and you never want to give hate a voice.

Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.

We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

I need a combination of attitude, sensuality, and vulnerability. I need a new kind of heroine. After Bipasha Basu and Sunny Leone, India now needs an even more unique fantasy figure.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

A Change Is Gonna Come' has always been a powerful song for me as it comes from a place of vulnerability.

My all-time favorite TED talks are Brene Brown's 'The Power of Vulnerability' and Sir Ken Robinson's 'Do Schools Kill Creativity.'

We're getting bolder with our drama and we're allowing women to be unapologetic about their ambitions in a professional sense, and also about their vulnerability as mothers and lovers.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

It's very important for feminism for us to tell our daughters that they should be strong. But to tell our sons that they can be vulnerable, to have these characters on screen that are not perfectly masculine cowboys that never fail, for our boys to change their psyche as well, that's equally important for feminism.

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

In the blockchain world, each user can and should own their data, and 'central' players are less vulnerable to data losses and breaches.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.